Films and programs like Poetry in Motion

Bukowski: Born Into This

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2003 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifesty...

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We Are Poets

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Six teenage members of the performance poetry collective Leeds Young Authors travel to Washington D.C. to compete in poetry contest Brave New Voices, where they must somehow stay true to their own com...

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The Buddha

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 7.5

This documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of viole...

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First Cousin Once Removed

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.

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Bukowski at Bellevue

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1970 IMDB Rating: 7.6

In the spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski took his first plane trip for a poetry reading at Bellevue Community College in Washington state. That he was videotaped by two students apparently was later for...

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Project Grizzly

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1997 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Documentary about the lifelong project of Troy Hurtubise, a man who has been obsessed with researching the Canadian grizzly bear up close, ever since surviving an early encounter with such a bear. The...

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John Cage: Journeys in Sound

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 6.9

A sonic innovator or an expert on chance? This documentary by Oscar-winning director Allan Miller and Emmy-winner Paul Smaczny pays tribute to the most fascinating American avant-garde composer. Shot...

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The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2017 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Portrait photographer Elsa Dorfman found her medium in 1980: the larger-than-life Polaroid Land 20x24 camera. For the next thirty-five years, she captured the “surfaces” of those who visited her studi...

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Scared of Revolution

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 6.8

Umar Bin Hassan hasn’t even hit 70 yet, but he walks with difficulty and there’s sadness and fatigue in his eyes. As a member of The Last Poets, a group of performance poets who expressed the progress...

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