Allen Ginsberg
ActingBorn
June 3, 1926
Died
April 5, 1997
Place of Birth
Newark, New Jersey, USA
Biography
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 bur…
Known For
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
New York: A Documentary Film
1999
70 Years of Youth Revolt
2020
Howl
2010
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
Filmography
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025
Nova '78
2025
One to One: John & Yoko
2025
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025
A Supermarket in Californi
2024
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023
Why Is We Americans?
2022
The Velvet Underground
2021
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018
Take Your Pills
2018
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014
Beat Generation
2014
Norman Mailer: The American
2012
The Beat Hotel
2012
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010
Howl
2010
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008
65 Revisited
2007
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007
To John With Love
2006
Poets at the Living Theater
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003
The Cockettes
2002
American Magus
2002
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
Condo Painting
2000
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999
The Source
1999
Brakhage
1998
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997
On the Road to Desolation
1997
Happy Birthday to John
1997
Birth of a Nation
1997
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997
U2: A Year in Pop
1997
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997
Van Gogh's Ear
1995
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994
An Autumn Wind
1994
Jonas in the Desert
1994
Moving Pictures
1994
Road Scholar
1993
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
1990
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990
Silence = Death
1990
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989
Heavy Petting
1989
Growing Up in America
1989
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988
Autumn Ritual
1986
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985
All Star Video
1985
Before Stonewall
1984
Burroughs: The Movie
1984
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984
This Song for Jack
1983
Poetry in Motion
1982
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
La marche gaie
1980
Lake Placid '80
1980
Gay March on Washington
1979
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979
Thot-Fal'N
1978
Renaldo and Clara
1978
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Suite 212
1974
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
Ciao! Manhattan
1973
Global Groove
1973
Pickup's Tricks
1973
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Bed Peace
1969
Me and My Brother
1969
The Fall
1969
Yippie
1968
A.G.
1968
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968
Underground New York
1968
Chicago
1968
Anatomy of Violence
1967
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967
Ah, Sunflower
1967
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967
Herostratus
1967
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967
Hare Krishna
1967
Be-In
1967
Joan of Arc
1967
Galaxie
1966
Chappaqua
1966
Wholly Communion
1965
Dylan Speaks
1965
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965
Allan for Allan
1965
He! Viva Dada
1965
Couch
1964
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Guns of the Trees
1961
Pull My Daisy
1959