From Protest to Resistance

From Protest to Resistance

Documentary film about three veterans of the Civil Rights movement who have become peace spokesman for the new opposition activist. It traces their...

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Take This Hammer

Take This Hammer

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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Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

Alfred Leslie: Cool Man In A Golden Age

Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists...

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Louisiana Diary

Louisiana Diary

Follows the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from July to August 1963, as they undertake an African American voter registration drive in the town...

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Assemblage

Assemblage

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

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The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

The Writer In America : Toni Morrison

An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an...

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Losing Just the Same

Losing Just the Same

This documentary reflects on the lives and aspirations of an African American family - the Johns - who moved to West Oakland from Louisiana...

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USA: Poetry: Robert Duncan and John Wieners

USA: Poetry: Robert Duncan and John Wieners

This episode is a study of the return of the spirit of romance to contemporary poetry, as exemplified by poets Robert Duncan and John Wieners.

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USA: Poetry: Louis Zukofsky

USA: Poetry: Louis Zukofsky

Born in 1904, and first published by Ezra Pound in 1927, Louis Zukosky is the poet whose name is associated with the term objectivists. Although...

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USA: Poetry Anne Sexton

USA: Poetry Anne Sexton

USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders

USA: Poetry: Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank...

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