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This is the film the Black Panthers used to promote their cause. Shot in 1969, in Oakland, San Francisco and Sacramento, this exemplar of 1960s activist filmmaking traces the development of the Black Panther...
In 1967, two years before his death, Jack Kerouac (1922-1969) was invited to Montreal by Radio-Canada to tape this interview. Mr. Kerouac speaks of his childhood in Lowell (Massachusetts) and the reasons why...
An introduction to the personalities and works of Denise Levertov and Charles Olsen. Levertov is seen in her home where, before reading some of her poems, she discusses her reason for being a poet and her...
This documentary film for Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater was considered so racially divisive by the candidate himself, that he ordered it withdrawn almost immediately after its release and...
Two of America’s leading poets - Robert Lowell (1917-1977) and Stanley Kunitz (1905 - 2006 ) - read from their works and discuss poetry. This conversation was recorded when both men, Pulitzer Prize...
A collection of short films made by Antony Balch in collaboration with William S Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Ian Somerville, with footage from Paris, Tangier and New York. Titles are WILLIAM BUYS A PARROT,...
Feature film. Story of racial prejudice and injustice set in the American South. Gregory Peck plays the lawyer, widower and father of two children who stirs up hostility when he agrees to defend a black man...
A dark and dramatic adaption of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic story, Laurence Payne stars as Edgar Marsh, a shy and awkward librarian who becomes obsessed with his new neighbour Betty Clare. Despite Marsh’s...
Recreates the life of Mark Twain and the age in which he lived, through a collection of period engravings and photographs. Highlights the 1880s and 1890s, with pictures of frontier towns and Manhattan....
A one man dramatisation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Tell-Tale Heart, performed by Michael Kane.
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