Allen Ginsberg

Allen Ginsberg

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...

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The Velvet Underground

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Chappaqua

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Dont Look Back

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American Magus

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Greetings from Washington, D.C.

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Berkeley in the Sixties

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Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV

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Howl

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Pull My Daisy

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Brakhage

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Why Is We Americans?

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Take Your Pills

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We Can't Go Home Again

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A.G.

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Tonite Let's All Make Love in London

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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell

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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles

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Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

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Norman Mailer: The American

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ChickenHawk

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Me and My Brother

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Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center

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Wholly Communion

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Suite 212

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Yippie

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He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life

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The Source

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Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder

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Autumn Ritual

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A Poet from the Lower East Side

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No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg

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Silence = Death

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Great Poets: In Their Own Words

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Chicago 10

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Happy Birthday to John

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New York in the Fifties

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Renaldo and Clara

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The Cockettes

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La marche gaie

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Johnny Minotaur

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Ah, Sunflower

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Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

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Galaxie

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Be-In

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Global Groove

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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan

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Herostratus

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Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri

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The Beat Hotel

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Pickup's Tricks

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Beat Generation

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Lost, Lost, Lost

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Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family

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All Star Video

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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell

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Burroughs: The Movie

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Une semaine dans la vie de camarades

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The Fall

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A Supermarket in Californi

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Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes

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Tim Leary: The Art of Dying

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The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music

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Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

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Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit

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As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

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Thot-Fal'N

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Lake Placid '80

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Birth of a Nation

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Dylan Speaks 1965

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Before Stonewall

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The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

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No. 18: Mahagonny

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Underground New York

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The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain

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Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel

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He! Viva Dada

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Don't Blink - Robert Frank

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The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'

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Poetry in Motion

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Ciao! Manhattan

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This Song for Jack

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Heavy Petting

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It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen

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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

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Couch

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Jonas in the Desert

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Hare Krishna

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Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets

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Joan of Arc

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Growing Up in America

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Andy Warhol Screen Tests

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Allan for Allan

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How the Beatles Changed the World

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Guns of the Trees

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Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair

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Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

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Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections

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Road Scholar

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Uncle Howard

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Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration

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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

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Condo Painting

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Summer of Love

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Symphony Of The Invisible

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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

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Anatomy of Violence

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Ballad of the Skeletons

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65 Revisited

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Van Gogh's Ear

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Allan ‘n’ Allen’s Complaint

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U2: A Year in Pop

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Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank

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Chicago

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Bed Peace

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William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine

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Gay March on Washington

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On the Road to Desolation

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70 Years of Youth Revolt

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New York: A Documentary Film

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The Dick Cavett Show

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