Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

1987 60 min

Overview

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.

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Documentary

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Cast

Amiri Baraka

Himself

Crew

Robert Chapman

Producer

Preston L. Holmes

Executive Producer

St. Clair Bourne

Director

Leslie Lee

Writer

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