Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with Lucien Carr, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual repression and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy and openness to Eastern religions.
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🎬 Movies
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
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2026
Nova '78
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2025
One to One: John & Yoko
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2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
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2025
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
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2023
The Velvet Underground
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2021
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
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2019
How the Beatles Changed the World
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2017
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
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2015
Beat Generation
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2014
Norman Mailer: The American
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2012
Howl
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2010
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
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2008
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
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2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
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2005
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
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2000
A Poet from the Lower East Side
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1997
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
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1994
Jonas in the Desert
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1994
Autumn Ritual
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1986
Burroughs: The Movie
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1984
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
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1981
Renaldo and Clara
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1978
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
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1968
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
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1967
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
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1967
Galaxie
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1966
Guns of the Trees
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1961