James Baldwin

Biography

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.

Known For

James Baldwin Abroad
James Baldwin Abroad
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
Baldwin's Nigger
Baldwin's Nigger
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
Public Speaking
Public Speaking
Take This Hammer
Take This Hammer
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
I Heard It Through the Grapevine
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village
James Baldwin, A Stranger In The Village

Filmography

2025 BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
as Self (archive footage)
2023 James Baldwin Abroad
as Self
2022 Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues
as Self (archive footage)
2021 Madonna: Madame X
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021 i ran from it and was still in it
as Self (voice) (archive footage)
2020 De Cabral a George Floyd: Onde Arde o Fogo Sagrado da Liberdade
as Self
2018 Robert Penn Warren: A Vision
as
2018 Explained
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Mr. SOUL!
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Bobby Kennedy for President
as Self (archive footage)
2018 Target: St. Louis Vol. 1
as Self (archive footage)
2017 I Am Not Your Negro
as Self (archive footage)
2017 The Madding Crowd
as Self (archive footage)
2014 A Person Is More Important Than Anything Else
as Self (archive footage)
2010 Public Speaking
as Self (archive footage)
2003 The James Baldwin Anthology
as
1989 James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket
as Self (archive footage)
1985 The Statue of Liberty
as Self - Writer
1982 I Heard It Through the Grapevine
as
1981 I Remember Harlem
as self