Allen Ginsberg
Biography
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet. He is considered to be one of the leading figures of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the counterculture that soon followed. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and was known as embodying various aspects of this counterculture, such as his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions. He was one of many influential American writers of his time known as the Beat Generation, which included famous writers such as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Ginsberg, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (48)
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
as Self - poet
2025
Nova '78
as Self (archive footage)
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
as Self (archive footage)
2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
as Self (archive footage)
2025
A Supermarket in Californi
as Self (voice) (archive)
2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
as Self (archive footage)
2024
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Why Is We Americans?
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Velvet Underground
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Symphony Of The Invisible
as Self (voice) (archive)
2020
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
as The Oracle of Delphi
2019
Take Your Pills
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
as Self (archive footage)
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Beat Generation
as Self (archive footage)
2014
Norman Mailer: The American
as Self (archive footage)
2012
The Beat Hotel
as Self (archive footage)
2012
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
as Self (archive footage)
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Howl
as Self
2010
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
as Self (archive footage)
2009
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
as Self (archive footage)
2008
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
as Self (archive footage)
2008
65 Revisited
as Self (archive footage)
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
as Self (archive footage)
2007
To John With Love
as Self (archive footage)
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
as Self (archive footage)
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
as Self
2005
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
as Self (archive footage)
2004
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
as Self (archive footage)
2003
The Cockettes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
American Magus
as Self (archive footage)
2002
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Condo Painting
as Self (archive footage)
2000
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
as Self (archive footage)
1999
The Source
as Self (archive footage)
1999
Brakhage
as Self (archive footage)
1998
Good Will Hunting
In Memory Of (Crew)
1997
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Ballad of the Skeletons
as Self (archive footage)
1997
On the Road to Desolation
as Self (archive footage)
1997
Happy Birthday to John
as Self
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1997
