One in a series of 13 documentaries on renowned American poets produced by the New York Center for Visual History. Described by director St. Clair Bourne as “a narrative performance documentary,” this category-defiant film on the life of poet and writer Hughes and the times in which he lived and worked moves from America to Senegal to Paris, from the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to the Black Pride awakening of the 1960s.
St. Clair Bourne
Director
Leslie Lee
Writer
Public Speaking70%
Directed by John Ford70%
A Plastic Ocean75%
John Candy: I Like Me78%
The Class of ‘9271%
28 Up75%
Sherman's March67%
Sidney70%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
Lionel Messi: Destiny78%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Love, Antosha74%
35 Up76%
The Velvet Underground67%
Fuck64%
Elstree 197661%
Tricked: The Documentary61%
Western Stars70%
My Mom Jayne80%
The Captains63%
