James Baldwin Movies

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's short story, 'Sonny's Blues.'

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

The film utilizes the story-telling format to create a multilevel narrative that explores the relations between speech, language, and desire....

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...

Concentrating on James Baldwin's extended stays in Istanbul in 60's and 70's, the film explores the limits of an autobiography mostly relying on...