Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones October 7, 1934), formerly known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, is an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and has taught at a number of universities, including the State University of New York at Buffalo and the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received the PEN Open Book Award, formerly known as the Beyond Margins Award, in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

Filmography

• 2026The Dutchman — Original Story, Theatre Play
• 2007Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
• 1998Bulworth — Rastaman
• 1996W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices — Self, Writer
• ER — Reid
• 1982Speaking in Tongues
• 1981Death of a Prophet
• 1973Medea — Writer
• 1972Nationtime: Gary — Self, Writer
• 1971A Fable — Screenplay, Theatre Play
• 1969The New-Ark — Self, Writer, Director
• 1967Black Spring — Director
• 1966Cellar Vigil — Director
• 1966Dutchman — Writer, Theatre Play

Appearances as themselves (23)

• 2025castelporziano ostia dei poeti — Self - poet
• 2024Sing! Fight! Sing! Fight! From LeRoi to Amiri — Self
• 2009Ferlinghetti: A Rebirth of Wonder — Self
• 2008New York Agora: The Legacy of the 60s Counterculture — Himself
• 2008Obscene: A Portrait of Barney Rosset and Grove Press — Self
• 2007Return to Gorée — Self
• 2007Turn Me On — Self
• 2006Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow — Self
• 2006Poets at the Living Theater — Self
• 2006The Pact — Self
• 2005Cecil Taylor: All The Notes — Himself
• 2005Sun Ra: Brother From Another Planet — Self
• 1997Scenes from Allen's Last Three Days on Earth as a Spirit — Self
• 1989James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket — Self
• 1987Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper — Himself
• 1983In Motion: Amiri Baraka — Himself
• 1982I Heard It Through the Grapevine — Self
• 1982Poetry in Motion — Self
• 1979Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds — Self
• 1978Black Theatre: The Making of a Movement — Self
• 19711 P.M. — Self
• Great Performances — Self
• 1970Black Journal: 23; New-Ark — Self