Marlon Riggs

Marlon Riggs

Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.

  • Title: Marlon Riggs
  • Popularity: 0.78
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1957-02-03
  • Place of Birth: Fort Worth, Texas, USA
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  • Also Known As: Marlon Troy Riggs, Marlon T. Riggs
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Marlon Riggs Movies

  • 1991
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    Absolutely Positive

    Absolutely Positive

    1 1991 HD

    The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and...

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

    Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act....

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  • 1993
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    Anthem

    Anthem

    4.4 1993 HD

    A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.

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  • 1994
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    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    6.1 1994 HD

    African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses...

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  • 1996
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    I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs

    I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs

    3.5 1996 HD

    Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the...

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  • 1995
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    Positive Men

    Positive Men

    1 1995 HD

    Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s. Memories of New York and San...

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1986
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    Ethnic Notions

    Ethnic Notions

    7.1 1986 HD

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  • 1992
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    Color Adjustment

    Color Adjustment

    6.9 1992 HD

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  • 1993
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    Boys' Shorts

    Boys' Shorts

    3.5 1993 HD

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  • 1994
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    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    6.1 1994 HD

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  • 1993
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    No Regret

    No Regret

    5.4 1993 HD

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  • 1993
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    Anthem

    Anthem

    4.4 1993 HD

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1982
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    How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age

    How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age

    How Much Is Enough? Decision Making in the Nuclear Age

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1990
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    Affirmations

    Affirmations

    5.6 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1994
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    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    Black Is… Black Ain’t

    6.1 1994 HD

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  • 1992
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    Color Adjustment

    Color Adjustment

    6.9 1992 HD

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  • 1992
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    Color Adjustment

    Color Adjustment

    6.9 1992 HD

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  • 1990
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    Affirmations

    Affirmations

    5.6 1990 HD

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  • 1990
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    Affirmations

    Affirmations

    5.6 1990 HD

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  • 1993
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    No Regret

    No Regret

    5.4 1993 HD

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  • 1986
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    Ethnic Notions

    Ethnic Notions

    7.1 1986 HD

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  • 1993
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    Anthem

    Anthem

    4.4 1993 HD

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  • 1981
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    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1993
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    No Regret

    No Regret

    5.4 1993 HD

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  • 1981
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    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1981
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    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    6 1981 HD

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  • 1990
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    Tongues Untied

    Tongues Untied

    6.7 1990 HD

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  • 1986
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    Ethnic Notions

    Ethnic Notions

    7.1 1986 HD

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  • 1981
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    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    Long Train Running: A History of the Oakland Blues

    6 1981 HD

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