James Baldwin

James Baldwin

James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.

  • Title: James Baldwin
  • Popularity: 3.256
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1924-08-02
  • Place of Birth: Harlem, New York, USA
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James Baldwin Movies

  • 2023
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    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

    10 2023 HD

    Showcasing three short films by American writer James Baldwin, wherein he muses about race, sexuality and civil rights, among other topics, in...

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  • 2021
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    Madonna: Madame X

    Madonna: Madame X

    7.5 2021 HD

    Filmed in Lisbon, Portugal, the film captures the pop icon’s rare and rapturous tour performance, hailed by sold out theatrical audiences...

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  • 2018
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    Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

    Target: St. Louis Vol. 1

    1 2018 HD

    TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical testing on citizens of St. Louis's...

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  • 1968
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    Baldwin's Nigger

    Baldwin's Nigger

    6.6 1968 HD

    James Baldwin and Dick Gregory discuss the Civil Rights Movement in 1960s Great Britain.

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  • 1989
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    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket

    1.5 1989 HD

    James Baldwin was at once a major 20th century American author, a Civil Rights activist and, for two crucial decades, a prophetic voice calling...

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  • 2010
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    Public Speaking

    Public Speaking

    7 2010 HD

    A feature-length documentary starring Fran Lebowitz, a writer known for her unique take on modern life. The film weaves together extemporaneous...

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  • 2022
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    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues

    6.932 2022 HD

    An intimate and revealing look at the world-changing musician, presented through a lens of archival footage and never-before-heard home recordings...

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  • 1964
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    Take This Hammer

    Take This Hammer

    10 1964 HD

    Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San...

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  • 1982
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    1 1982 HD

    Renowned Black writer James Baldwin retraces his time in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, reflecting with his trademark brilliance and...

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  • 1962
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    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

    1 1962 HD

    James Baldwin, a stranger in a Swiss village in 1962, reflects on ordinary and universal racism.

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  • 1973
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    James Baldwin: From Another Place

    James Baldwin: From Another Place

    6.5 1973 HD

    In Istanbul, American writer James Baldwin muses about race, the American fascination with sexuality, insights into his interrupted writing decade in...

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  • 2014
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    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else

    1 2014 HD

    "A person is more important than anything else…," is driven by the cadence and intonation of James Baldwin’s voice, for Baldwin was also...

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  • 1985
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    The Statue of Liberty

    The Statue of Liberty

    6.7 1985 HD

    For more than 100 years, the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In this lyrical, compelling and...

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  • 1965
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    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley

    1 1965 HD

    The Cambridge Union Society debates the motion "Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?" on its 150th anniversary....

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  • 1970
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    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    7.3 1970 HD

    Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, the documentary follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional...

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  • 2020
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    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade

    1 2020 HD

    Through clippings, the film draws a narrative line between the construction of racism in Brazil and the United States, having as base the European...

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  • 2017
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    The Madding Crowd

    The Madding Crowd

    1 2017 HD

    "A great many conundrums." An assemblage of found footage.

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  • 1971
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    Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris

    7.1 1971 HD

    In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin set in Paris, insisting on setting aside his...

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  • 2018
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    Mr. SOUL!

    Mr. SOUL!

    7 2018 HD

    On the heels of the Civil Rights Movement, one fearless black pioneer reconceived a Harlem Renaissance for a new era, ushering giants and rising...

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.721 2017 HD

    Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a meditation on what it means to be Black in the...

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  • 2021
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    i ran from it and was still in it

    i ran from it and was still in it

    6 2021 HD

    I ran from it and was still in it poetically interweaves personal family memories with original and found footage to offer a more complex portrait of...

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  • 2003
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    The James Baldwin Anthology

    The James Baldwin Anthology

    1 2003 HD

    The James Baldwin Anthology consists of internationally known writer James Baldwin's historic speech at UC Berkeley in 1979, his answers in a...

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  • 2018
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    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    Robert Penn Warren: A Vision

    1 2018 HD

    A documentary profile of 3-time Pulitzer winning author Robert Penn Warren, featuring Harold Bloom, David Blight, Natasha Trethewey, David Milch,...

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  • 1992
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    Toc Storee

    Toc Storee

    1 1992 HD

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  • 2017
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    I Am Not Your Negro

    I Am Not Your Negro

    7.721 2017 HD

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  • 1982
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    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    I Heard It Through the Grapevine

    1 1982 HD

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  • 2023
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    James Baldwin Abroad

    James Baldwin Abroad

    10 2023 HD

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  • 2018
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    If Beale Street Could Talk

    If Beale Street Could Talk

    6.9 2018 HD

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  • 2022
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    Brother, Where Are You?

    Brother, Where Are You?

    10 2022 HD

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  • 1985
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    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    Go Tell It on the Mountain

    5 1985 HD

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  • 2018
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    Bobby Kennedy for President

    Bobby Kennedy for President

    7.7 2018 HD

    Historic footage and leading voices of the era examine the "Bobby Phenomenon" of the 1960s and the legacy of the man who helped redefine the country.

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  • 1981
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    I Remember Harlem

    I Remember Harlem

    1 1981 HD

    William Miles’s landmark epic documents the early settlement of the Village of Harlem in the 17th century to the specter of urban renewal and...

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  • 1968
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    The Dick Cavett Show

    The Dick Cavett Show

    6.658 1968 HD

    The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.

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  • 2018
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    Explained

    Explained

    7.5 2018 HD

    This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.

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  • 1970
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    Assignment America

    Assignment America

    1 1970 HD

    A weekly series with alternating interviewer: Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; poet, playwright and author Maya Angelou; syndicated columnist...

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