Allen Ginsberg: movies and TV shows
Allen Ginsberg has 141 credits in the archive: 138 films and 3 TV series, from 1959 to 2026. Highest rated: Condo Painting (10.0/10).
Career timeline
1959 – 2026 · busiest year: 1997 (11 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC | Self | Film | — | 100 |
| 2025 | One to One: John & Yoko | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 99 |
| 2025 | Nova '78 | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 99 |
| 2025 | castelporziano ostia dei poeti | Self - poet | Film | 8.0 | 99 |
| 2025 | John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 99 |
| 2024 | A Supermarket in Californi | Self (voice) (archive) | Film | — | 98 |
| 2024 | A Supermarket in Californi | Film | — | 98 | |
| 2024 | Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 98 |
| 2023 | Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 97 |
| 2022 | Why Is We Americans? | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 96 |
| 2021 | The Velvet Underground | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.8 | 95 |
| 2020 | 70 Years of Youth Revolt | Self (archive footage) | TV | 7.2 | 94 |
| 2020 | Symphony Of The Invisible | Self (voice) (archive) | Film | — | 94 |
| 2019 | Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese | The Oracle of Delphi | Film | 7.0 | 93 |
| 2018 | Take Your Pills | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 92 |
| 2018 | A Walking Tour of the East Village 1985 | Self | Film | — | 92 |
| 2017 | How the Beatles Changed the World | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.3 | 91 |
| 2017 | Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.0 | 91 |
| 2017 | Harry Smith at the Breslin Hotel | Film | 4.0 | 91 | |
| 2015 | William S. Burroughs in the Dreamachine | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 89 |
| 2015 | A Day in the Life of Andy Warhol | Film | 5.0 | 89 | |
| 2015 | Don't Blink - Robert Frank | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 89 |
| 2014 | Beat Generation | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.2 | 88 |
| 2014 | Great Poets: In Their Own Words | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 88 |
| 2014 | The Stars Behind the Iron Curtain | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 88 |
| 2012 | The Beat Hotel | Self (archive footage) | Film | 4.5 | 86 |
| 2012 | Norman Mailer: The American | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 86 |
| 2011 | Crazy Wisdom: The Life and Times of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.5 | 85 |
| 2010 | Howl | Self | Film | 6.4 | 84 |
| 2010 | William S. Burroughs: A Man Within | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 84 |
| 2009 | Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.0 | 83 |
| 2008 | Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.1 | 82 |
| 2008 | Tim Leary: The Art of Dying | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 82 |
| 2007 | 65 Revisited | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.4 | 81 |
| 2007 | The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 81 |
| 2006 | Poets at the Living Theater | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 80 |
| 2006 | To John With Love | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 80 |
| 2006 | Allen Ginsberg Sings Blues | Film | — | 80 | |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | Self | Film | 7.8 | 79 |
| 2004 | Twenty to Life: The Life & Times of John Sinclair | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 78 |
| 2003 | The Battle for 'I Am Curious-Yellow' | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.0 | 77 |
| 2002 | The Cockettes | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.7 | 76 |
| 2002 | American Magus | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 76 |
| 2000 | Condo Painting | Self (archive footage) | Film | 10.0 | 74 |
| 2000 | As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.7 | 74 |
| 1999 | New York: A Documentary Film | Self - Commentator | TV | 7.5 | 73 |
| 1999 | The Source | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.4 | 73 |
| 1999 | Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles | Self (archive footage) | Film | 2.8 | 73 |
| 1998 | Brakhage | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 72 |
| 1997 | Good Will Hunting | Film | 8.2 | 71 | |
| 1997 | A Poet from the Lower East Side | Self | Film | 10.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | Ballad of the Skeletons | Self | Film | 5.8 | 71 |
| 1997 | Ballad of the Skeletons | Film | 5.8 | 71 | |
| 1997 | Ballad of the Skeletons | Film | 5.8 | 71 | |
| 1997 | On the Road to Desolation | Self (archive footage) | Film | — | 71 |
| 1997 | Birth of a Nation | Self | Film | 7.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | Happy Birthday to John | Self | Film | 5.3 | 71 |
| 1997 | No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg | Self (archive footage) | Film | 1.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | U2: A Year in Pop | Self | Film | 9.0 | 71 |
| 1997 | Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit | Self | Film | 5.2 | 71 |
| 1995 | Van Gogh's Ear | Self | Film | 4.0 | 69 |
| 1994 | Chicken Hawk: Men Who Love Boys | Self | Film | 6.2 | 68 |
| 1994 | The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg | Self (archive footage) | Film | 5.7 | 68 |
| 1994 | Moving Pictures | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 1994 | Jonas in the Desert | Self | Film | 6.4 | 68 |
| 1994 | An Autumn Wind | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 1994 | An Autumn Wind | Film | — | 68 | |
| 1994 | An Autumn Wind | Film | — | 68 | |
| 1993 | Road Scholar | Self | Film | 8.5 | 67 |
| 1990 | Silence = Death | Self | Film | 5.1 | 64 |
| 1990 | Scenes from the Life of Andy Warhol: Friendships & Intersections | Self | Film | 6.7 | 64 |
| 1990 | Berkeley in the Sixties | Self | Film | 6.0 | 64 |
| 1989 | Heavy Petting | Self | Film | 5.7 | 63 |
| 1989 | Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center | Self | Film | — | 63 |
| 1989 | Growing Up in America | Self | Film | 8.5 | 63 |
| 1989 | Gang of Souls: A Generation of Beat Poets | Self | Film | 5.0 | 63 |
| 1988 | Voices & Visions: Walt Whitman | Self | Film | — | 62 |
| 1986 | Autumn Ritual | Self | Film | 8.8 | 60 |
| 1986 | He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.4 | 60 |
| 1986 | Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank | Self | Film | — | 60 |
| 1985 | All Star Video | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 59 |
| 1985 | It Don't Pay to Be an Honest Citizen | Lawyer | Film | 7.3 | 59 |
| 1984 | Before Stonewall | Self | Film | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1984 | Burroughs: The Movie | Self | Film | 7.0 | 58 |
| 1984 | Good Morning, Mr. Orwell | Self | Film | 8.1 | 58 |
| 1984 | Ginsberg/Corso Tapes | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 1983 | This Song for Jack | Self | Film | 6.5 | 57 |
| 1982 | Allan ‘n Allen’s Complaint | Self | Film | — | 56 |
| 1982 | Poetry in Motion | Self | Film | 8.0 | 56 |
| 1981 | Greetings from Washington, D.C. | Self | Film | 9.0 | 55 |
| 1980 | No. 18: Mahagonny | Self | Film | 6.0 | 54 |
| 1980 | La marche gaie | Self | Film | 4.8 | 54 |
| 1980 | The Beats: An Existential Comedy | Film | — | 54 | |
| 1980 | Lake Placid '80 | Self | Film | 8.0 | 54 |
| 1979 | Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds | Self | Film | 7.7 | 53 |
| 1979 | Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds | Film | 7.7 | 53 | |
| 1979 | Gay March on Washington | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 1978 | Renaldo and Clara | The Father | Film | 7.9 | 52 |
| 1978 | Thot-Fal'N | Self | Film | 5.7 | 52 |
| 1977 | Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration | Self | Film | — | 51 |
| 1976 | Lost, Lost, Lost | Self | Film | 7.1 | 50 |
| 1976 | Une semaine dans la vie de camarades | Film | 9.0 | 50 | |
| 1974 | Suite 212 | Self | Film | — | 48 |
| 1973 | Ciao! Manhattan | Self | Film | 5.5 | 47 |
| 1973 | We Can't Go Home Again | Allen | Film | 6.2 | 47 |
| 1973 | Pickup's Tricks | Self | Film | — | 47 |
| 1973 | Global Groove | Self | Film | 7.7 | 47 |
| 1971 | Johnny Minotaur | Film | 5.5 | 45 | |
| 1971 | Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally | Self | Film | 7.5 | 45 |
| 1971 | Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family | Self | Film | 6.5 | 45 |
| 1969 | Bed Peace | Self | Film | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1969 | Me and My Brother | Self | Film | 6.5 | 43 |
| 1969 | Me and My Brother | Film | 6.5 | 43 | |
| 1969 | The Fall | Self | Film | 7.2 | 43 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 42 |
| 1968 | Chicago | Self | Film | — | 42 |
| 1968 | Diaries, Notes, and Sketches | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.2 | 42 |
| 1968 | Yippie | Self | Film | 5.4 | 42 |
| 1968 | Yippie | Film | 5.4 | 42 | |
| 1968 | A.G. | Self | Film | — | 42 |
| 1968 | Underground New York | Self | Film | — | 42 |
| 1967 | Bob Dylan – Don't Look Back | Self (uncredited) | Film | 7.4 | 41 |
| 1967 | Herostratus | Poet (voice) | Film | 6.4 | 41 |
| 1967 | Hare Krishna | Self | Film | 4.9 | 41 |
| 1967 | Tonite Let's All Make Love in London | Self | Film | 4.5 | 41 |
| 1967 | Anatomy of Violence | Self | Film | — | 41 |
| 1967 | Ah, Sunflower | Self | Film | — | 41 |
| 1967 | Joan of Arc | Self | Film | — | 41 |
| 1967 | Be-In | Self | Film | 5.0 | 41 |
| 1967 | Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.0 | 41 |
| 1966 | Chappaqua | Messiah | Film | 6.3 | 40 |
| 1966 | Galaxie | Self | Film | 10.0 | 40 |
| 1965 | Dylan Speaks | Self (archive footage) | Film | 2.0 | 39 |
| 1965 | Andy Warhol Screen Tests | Self | Film | 8.0 | 39 |
| 1965 | He! Viva Dada | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1965 | Allan for Allan | Self | Film | — | 39 |
| 1965 | Wholly Communion | Self | Film | 6.3 | 39 |
| 1964 | Couch | Self | Film | 6.4 | 38 |
| 1964 | Stockhausen's Originale: Doubletakes | Film | — | 38 | |
| 1961 | Guns of the Trees | Self (voice) | Film | 7.3 | 35 |
| 1959 | Pull My Daisy | Alan | Film | 6.1 | 33 |