James Baldwin
Known for: Acting
Born: August 2, 1924
Died: December 1, 1987
Place of birth: Harlem, New York, USA
James Arthur Baldwin was an African-American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic. His essays, as collected in Notes of a Native Son, explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies of racial, sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America, and their inevitable if unnameable tensions.
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Filmography
33 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
7.0
The New Yorker at 100
2025
10.0
James Baldwin Abroad
2023
10.0
Brother, Where Are You?
2022
6.7
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
7.8
Madonna: Madame X
2021
6.0
i ran from it and was still in it
2021
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De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
6.9
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018
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Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
7.5
Explained
2018
7.0
Mr. SOUL!
2018
7.8
Bobby Kennedy for President
2018
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Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018
7.7
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
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The Madding Crowd
2017
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A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
2014
6.0
Off-White Tulips
2013
7.0
Public Speaking
2011NR
The James Baldwin Anthology
2003
6.1
Where the Heart Is
1998
7.6
Malcolm X
1992
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Toc Storee
1992
3.0
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
6.9
The Statue of Liberty
1985
6.3
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
7.0
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
NR
I Remember Harlem
1981
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The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978
6.5
James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973
7.1
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971
7.3
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
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SOUL!
1968
7.0
Baldwin's Nigger
1968
6.8
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
NR
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965
10.0
Take This Hammer
1964
NR
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
7.0
World in Action
1963
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James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
1962NR
Assignment America
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