Amiri Baraka
Known for: Writing
Born: October 7, 1934
Died: January 9, 2014
Place of birth: Newark, New Jersey, USA
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.
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Filmography
35 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
5.2
The Dutchman
2026
7.5
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025NR
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
5.0
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
5.0
Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press
2008
NR
New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture
2008
9.0
Return to Gorée
2007
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Turn Me On
2007NR
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2007
NR
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
6.9
Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow
2006
NR
The Pact
2006
NR
Cecil Taylor: All The Notes
20058.0
Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet
2005
6.3
Bulworth
1998
5.2
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
6.5
W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
1996
7.8
ER
1994
3.0
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
NR
Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper
1987NR
In Motion: Amiri Baraka
1983
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Speaking in Tongues
1982
8.0
Poetry in Motion
1982
7.0
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
4.8
Death of a Prophet
19817.7
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
9.0
Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement
1978
7.0
Medea
1973
8.0
Nationtime: Gary
1972
6.2
1 P.M.
1971
4.5
A Fable
1971
6.1
Great Performances
1971NR
Black Journal: 23; New-Ark
1970
NR
The New-Ark
1969NR
Black Spring
1967
4.8
Dutchman
1966NR
Cellar Vigil
1966