Allen Ginsberg
Known for: Acting
Born: June 3, 1926
Died: April 5, 1997
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
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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Filmography
131 movies · 3 TV shows, newest first
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Nova '78
2026NR
ALLEN & AI
2026
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Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026
7.5
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
7.1
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
6.7
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
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A Supermarket in California
2024NR
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
6.8
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
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Why Is We Americans?
2022
6.8
The Velvet Underground
2021
7.2
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
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Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
7.0
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
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A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018
6.5
Take Your Pills
2018
4.0
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
7.2
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
7.0
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015
5.0
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
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William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015
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The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
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Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
9.2
Beat Generation
2014
7.0
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
4.5
The Beat Hotel
2012
5.5
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011
6.5
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
6.5
Howl
2010
5.0
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
6.2
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008
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Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
9.4
65 Revisited
2007
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The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
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To John With Love
2006
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Poets at the Living Theater
2006NR
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2006
7.8
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
20048.0
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
6.9
The Cockettes
2002
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American Magus
2002
7.8
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
10.0
Condo Painting
2000
7.5
New York: A Documentary Film
1999
3.6
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999
5.6
The Source
1999
7.1
Brakhage
1998
8.2
Good Will Hunting
1997
1.0
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997
5.8
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997NR
On the Road to Desolation
1997
5.3
Happy Birthday to John
1997
7.0
Birth of a Nation
1997
5.2
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
9.0
U2: A Year in Pop
1997
10.0
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
4.0
Van Gogh's Ear
1995
6.1
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994
5.7
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994NR
An Autumn Wind
1994
6.4
Jonas in the Desert
1994NR
Moving Pictures
1994
8.5
Road Scholar
1993
6.6
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
1990
6.0
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
5.1
Silence = Death
1990
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Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989
5.7
Heavy Petting
1989
8.5
Growing Up in America
1989
5.0
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989
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Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988
8.0
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
19878.8
Autumn Ritual
1986
8.4
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
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Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
7.3
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985
6.5
All Star Video
1985
6.5
Before Stonewall
1984
7.0
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
8.1
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984NR
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984
6.5
This Song for Jack
1983
8.0
Poetry in Motion
1982
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Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982
9.0
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
19816.0
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980NR
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
4.8
La marche gaie
1980
8.0
Lake Placid '80
1980
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Gay March on Washington
19797.7
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
5.7
Thot-Fal'N
1978
7.9
Renaldo and Clara
1978
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Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977
7.1
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
9.0
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
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Suite 212
1974
6.1
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
5.5
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
7.7
Global Groove
1973
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Pickup's Tricks
1973
7.5
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
6.5
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
5.5
Johnny Minotaur
1971
7.5
Bed Peace
1969
6.5
Me and My Brother
1969
7.2
The Fall
1969
5.4
Yippie
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
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A.G.
1968
7.3
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
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Underground New York
1968NR
Chicago
1968
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Anatomy of Violence
1967
4.5
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
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Ah, Sunflower
1967
7.0
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967
6.4
Herostratus
1967
7.4
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
4.9
Hare Krishna
1967
5.0
Be-In
1967
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Joan of Arc
1967
10.0
Galaxie
1966
6.3
Chappaqua
1966
6.3
Wholly Communion
1965
2.0
Dylan Speaks
1965
8.0
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965NR
Allan for Allan
1965
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He! Viva Dada
1965
6.4
Couch
1964NR
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
7.3
Guns of the Trees
1961
6.1
Pull My Daisy
1959