James Baldwin
Acting
- Born 02/08/1924
- Harlem, New York, USA
- Died 01/12/1987
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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My Gender Is Black
2026
The New Yorker at 100
2025
James Baldwin Abroad
2023
Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
2022
Madonna: Madame X
2021
i ran from it and was still in it
2021
De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
2020
Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
2018
Explained
2018
Mr. SOUL!
2018
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
2018
I Am Not Your Negro
2017
The Madding Crowd
2017
A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
2014
Off-White Tulips
2013
Public Speaking
2011
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
1989
The Statue of Liberty
1985
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
1982
I Remember Harlem
1981
The Black Contribution: Literature and Theatre
1978
James Baldwin: From Another Place
1973
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris
1971
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
1970
SOUL!
1968
Baldwin's Nigger
1968
The Dick Cavett Show
1968
Debate: Baldwin vs. Buckley
1965
Take This Hammer
1964
The Negro and the American Promise
1963
World in Action
1963
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
1962