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 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.
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Photos
Movies (135)
May Day x 4
2026 · Self
Nova '78
2026 · Self (archive footage)
ALLEN & AI
2026
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC
2026 · Self
castelporziano ostia dei poeti
2025 · Self - poet
One to One: John & Yoko
2025 · Self (archive footage)
John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office
2025 · Self (archive footage)
A Supermarket in California
2024 · Self (voice) (archive), Screenplay
Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri
2024 · Self (archive footage)
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
2023 · Self (archive footage)
Why Is We Americans?
2022 · Self (archive footage)
The Velvet Underground
2021 · Self (archive footage)
Symphony Of The Invisible
2020 · Self (voice) (archive)
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · The Oracle of Delphi
A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985
2018 · Self
Take Your Pills
2018 · Self (archive footage)
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
2017 · Self (archive footage), Vocals
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
2015 · Self (archive footage)
A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol
2015
William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine
2015 · Self (archive footage)
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Beat Generation
2014 · Self (archive footage)
Out-Takes from the Life of a Happy Man
2012 · Self
Norman Mailer: The American
2012 · Self (archive footage)
The Beat Hotel
2012 · Self (archive footage)
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place
2011 · Self (archive footage)
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Howl
2010 · Self
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
2009 · Self (archive footage)
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Tim Leary: The Art of Dying
2008 · Self (archive footage)
Speak Out
2007
65 Revisited
2007 · Self (archive footage)
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
2007 · Self (archive footage)
To John With Love
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Poets at the Living Theater
2006 · Self (archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues
2006
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005 · Self
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
2004 · Self (archive footage)
The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow'
2003 · Self (archive footage)
The Cockettes
2002 · Self (archive footage)
American Magus
2002 · Self (archive footage)
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Condo Painting
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999 · Self (archive footage)
The Source
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Brakhage
1998 · Self (archive footage)
Good Will Hunting
1997 · In Memory Of
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Ballad of the Skeletons
1997 · Self, Writer, Original Music Composer
On the Road to Desolation
1997 · Self (archive footage)
Happy Birthday to John
1997 · Self
Birth of a Nation
1997 · Self
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
1997 · Self
U2: A Year in Pop
1997 · Self
A Poet from the Lower East Side
1997 · Self
Van Gogh's Ear
1995 · Self
Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys
1994 · Self
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
1994 · Self (archive footage)
An Autumn Wind
1994 · Self, Writer, Poem
Jonas in the Desert
1994 · Self
Moving Pictures
1994 · Self
Road Scholar
1993 · Self
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships and Intersections
1990 · Self
Berkeley in the Sixties
1990 · Self
Silence = Death
1990 · Self
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
1989 · Self
Heavy Petting
1989 · Self
Growing Up in America
1989 · Self
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
1989 · Self
Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman
1988 · Self
It Was Twenty Years Ago Today
1987 · Self
Autumn Ritual
1986 · Self
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · Self (archive footage)
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
1986 · Self
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
1985 · Lawyer
All Star Video
1985 · Self (archive footage)
Before Stonewall
1984 · Self
Burroughs: The Movie
1984 · Self
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
1984 · Self
Ginsberg/Corso Tapes
1984 · Self
This Song for Jack
1983 · Self
Poetry in Motion
1982 · Self
Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint
1982 · Self
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
1981 · Self
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 · Self
The Beats: An Existential Comedy
1980
La marche gaie
1980 · Self
Lake Placid '80
1980 · Self
Gay March on Washington
1979 · Self
Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds
1979 · Self, Other
Thot-Fal'N
1978 · Self
Renaldo and Clara
1978 · The Father
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1977 · Self
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 · Self
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
1976
Suite 212
1974 · Self
We Can't Go Home Again
1973 · Allen
Ciao! Manhattan
1973 · Self
Global Groove
1973 · Self
Pickup's Tricks
1973 · Self
Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally
1971 · Self
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
1971 · Self
Johnny Minotaur
1971
Bed Peace
1969 · Self
Me and My Brother
1969 · Self, Poem
The Fall
1969 · Self
Yippie
1968 · Self, Director
A.G.
1968 · Self
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 · Self (archive footage)
Underground New York
1968 · Self
Chicago
1968 · Self
Anatomy of Violence
1967 · Self
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
1967 · Self
Ah, Sunflower
1967 · Self
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
1967 · Self (archive footage)
Herostratus
1967 · Poet (voice)
Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back
1967 · Self (uncredited)
Hare Krishna
1967 · Self
Be-In
1967 · Self
Joan of Arc
1967 · Self
Galaxie
1966 · Self
Chappaqua
1966 · Messiah
Wholly Communion
1965 · Self
Dylan Speaks
1965 · Self (archive footage)
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
1965 · Self
Allan for Allan
1965 · Self
He! Viva Dada
1965 · Self
Couch
1964 · Self
Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes
1964
Guns of the Trees
1961 · Self (voice)
Pull My Daisy
1959 · Alan
