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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Known for
A Supermarket in Californi
Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV
Why Is We Americans?
The Velvet Underground
70 Years of Youth Revolt
Symphony Of The Invisible
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Take Your Pills
Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel
How the Beatles Changed the World
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography
Uncle Howard
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain
Great Poets: In Their Own Words
Beat Generation
Tropico
Norman Mailer: The American
The Beat Hotel
Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
Howl
Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder
Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
Chicago 10
65 Revisited
Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out
The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Dylan Speaks 1965
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair
The Cockettes
American Magus
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Condo Painting
New York: A Documentary Film
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
The Source
No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg
Ballad of the Skeletons
Happy Birthday to John
Birth of a Nation
Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit
U2: A Year in Pop
A Poet from the Lower East Side
The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg
Jonas in the Desert
Road Scholar
Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections
Berkeley in the Sixties
Silence = Death
Summer of Love
Heavy Petting
Growing Up in America
Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank
It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen
All Star Video
Before Stonewall
Burroughs: The Movie
Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Poetry in Motion
Allan ‘n’ Allen’s Complaint
Greetings from Washington, D.C.
Lake Placid '80
Renaldo and Clara
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Lost, Lost, Lost
Une semaine dans la vie de camarades
Suite 212
We Can't Go Home Again
Ciao! Manhattan
Pickup's Tricks
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family
Johnny Minotaur
Me and My Brother
The Fall
The Dick Cavett Show
A.G.
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
Underground New York
Joan of Arc
Anatomy of Violence
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
Ah, Sunflower
Herostratus
Don't Look Back
Hare Krishna
Be-In
Galaxie
Chappaqua
Wholly Communion
Andy Warhol Screen Tests
He! Viva Dada
Couch
Guns of the Trees
Pull My Daisy