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1. List of Essentials (2020)
8 min | Short
This experimental short adapts an excerpt from a 1958 letter from Jack Kerouac to Donald Allen, later published and titled "List of Essentials."
Director: Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter | Stars: Siena Chanel, Ben Heintz, Malcolm Quinn Silver-Van Meter, Clifford Ransom
3. L'aura de minuit (2015 Video)
Short
Director: Sarah Faget | Stars: Sarah Faget, Ombeline Garnier, Lou Lavalette, Lukas Lichou
4. Big Sur (2013)
R | 81 min | Drama, Romance
A recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
Director: Michael Polish | Stars: Jean-Marc Barr, Kate Bosworth, Josh Lucas, Radha Mitchell
Votes: 2,102 | Gross: $0.03M
5. On the Road (2012)
R | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.
Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams
Votes: 43,284 | Gross: $0.72M
6. Michel Bulteau & Serge Teyssot-Gay: Mexico City Blues (2011 Music Video)
28 min | Music
French poet Michel Bulteau and guitarist Serge Teyssot-Gay perform four stanzas "2nd, 46th, 66th, and 228th choruses" by Jack Kerouac on October 7, 2011, at the Casa Del Lago, Mexico City as part of the "Poesía en Voz Alta" Festival.
Director: Emiliano Castrillón | Stars: Michel Bulteau, Serge Teyssot-Gay
7. On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne (2010)
13 min | Documentary, Short
Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" is a classic American literature work. Kerouac writes about his experiences in Cheyenne, Wyoming during "Wild West Days" on his way to Denver. "The stars seemed... See full summary »
Director: Alan O'Hashi | Stars: John Allen Cassady, Jake Martin, Sarah L. Scott, Misty N. Swainson
8. Alfred Leslie: Cool Man in a Golden Age (2009 Video)
158 min | Drama
Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A celebrated contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and a key figure in the ... See full summary »
Directors: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie, Richard O. Moore
9. Book of Blues (2001)
Short
The wanderings of a man as he tries to understand his city in verse. Based upon the poems "San Francisco Blues" by Jack Kerouac.
Director: Lochlan Shelfer | Star: Jack Graham
Votes: 17
10. Venus Blue (1998)
11 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A strange woman wanders from town to town... Everyone she meets sees her in their own image of perfection. They cannot resist her, and she passes on to them a contagious virus which brings enlightenment.
Director: Gillian Ashurst | Stars: Asa Lindh, Betty Richards, Guy Ryan, Ueta Sitiene
Votes: 49
11. The Fifties (1997– )
Documentary, History
An in depth documentary of all aspects of life in the 1950s.
Stars: Edward Herrmann, David Halberstam, B.B. King, John Chancellor
Votes: 186
12.
The Fifties (1997– )
Episode:
The Beat
(1997)
Documentary, History
Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Elvis. Conformity is questioned and homogenized America begins to differentiate. The teenager as a class is born. Popular music is forever changed by the ... See full summary »
Stars: Edward Herrmann, Allen Ginsberg, David Halberstam, B.B. King
Votes: 5
13. United States of Poetry (1995– )
Documentary
Stars: Johnny Depp, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, Jack Kerouac
Votes: 40
14. Drug-Taking and the Arts (1993)
120 min | Documentary, Drama
How drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.
Director: Storm Thorgerson | Stars: Bernard Hill, Phil Daniels, Thom Booker, Patrick Barlow
Votes: 76
15. What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)
Not Rated | 96 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Documentary explore the unfulfilled promise of Beat Generation icon Jack Kerouac, covering the period from the publication of his notorious novel On the Road in 1957 to his alcohol-related death 12 years later.
Directors: Richard Lerner, Lewis MacAdams | Stars: Gregory Corso, Jan Kerouac, Herbert Huncke, Fran Landesman
Votes: 365
16. Kerouac, the Movie (1984)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, Biography, Drama
Jack Kerouac was a Beat Generation writer who took the nation by storm upon the publication of his novel On the Road. Kerouac's legacy and influence are explained via interviews with ... See full summary »
Director: John Antonelli | Stars: Peter Coyote, Jack Coulter, Cindy Alwan, David Andrews
Votes: 226
17.
Firing Line (1966–2020)
Episode:
The Hippies
(1968)
Talk-Show
Buckley interviews writer Jack Kerouac, singer Ed Sanders of The Fugs, and sociologist Lewis Yabolonsky, author of "The Hippie Trip." An inebriated Kerouac insults Yabolonsky and is shushed... See full summary »
Director: Garth Dietrick | Stars: William F. Buckley, Jack Kerouac, Lewis Yablonsky, Ed Sanders
Votes: 8
18.
Le Sel de la semaine (1965–1970)
Episode:
Jack Kerouac
(1967)
24 min | Talk-Show
Directors: Gérard Chapdelaine, Claude Roussel | Stars: Jack Kerouac, Fernand Seguin
19. Firing Line (1966–2020)
120 min | Talk-Show
A debate program hosted by conservative pundit William F. Buckley who verbally sparred with many notable figures of the 20th century.
Stars: William F. Buckley, Margaret Hoover, Michael Kinsley, Jeff Greenfield
Votes: 152
20. Le Sel de la semaine (1965–1970)
56 min | Talk-Show
-On air from 1965 to 1970 at Radio-Canada. Fernand Seguin receives a distinguished guest, a celebrity he wishes to reveal to viewers. At the beginning, the show had different formats before... See full summary »
Stars: Fernand Seguin, James Bamber, Josephine Baker, Joffre Dumazedier
21. Couch (1964)
54 min | Drama
The couch at Andy Warhol's Factory was as famous in its own right as any of his Superstars. In Couch, visitors to the Factory were invited to "perform" on camera, seated on the old couch. ... See full summary »
Director: Andy Warhol | Stars: Bingingham Birdie, Rufus Collins, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 85
22. Champ libre (1963–1965)
Talk-Show, Documentary
-TV program from Radio-Canada, broadcast in the 1960s
Stars: James Baldwin, Raymond Charette, Carl Dubuc, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
23. On the Road (1962– )
30 min | Drama
Canadian series based on the famous Jack Kerouac novel.
Stars: Lawrence Dane, Jonathan Erland, Bruno Gerussi, Marshall Howard
24. The Subterraneans (1960)
89 min | Drama
A love story between two misunderstood new bohemians who don't even understand themselves.
Director: Ranald MacDougall | Stars: Leslie Caron, George Peppard, Janice Rule, Roddy McDowall
Votes: 344
25. Pull My Daisy (1959)
30 min | Short
A married couple vainly hopes that their irreverent beat poet friends will behave themselves when the bishop comes to visit.
Directors: Robert Frank, Alfred Leslie | Stars: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Larry Rivers
Votes: 813
26.
The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1960)
Episode:
Jack Kerouac, William Bendix, Frankie Laine, Pam Garner
(1959)
Comedy
Professor Norton proves to be one clumsy bacteriologist. The Family Doctor of the Year proves most adept at tape removal. A sitcom scene gets canned laughter, but then turns violent. Jack Kerouac reads from 'On the Road.'
Stars: Steve Allen, William Bendix, Jack Kerouac, Pam Garner
Votes: 12
27. The Ben Hecht Show (1958–1959)
30 min | Talk-Show
Due to its sometimes controversial subject matter, the show only ran for 22 weeks. Hecht discussed a variety of subjects; often enraging some, engaging many. His comments were often entertaining, defiant, realistic and iconoclastic.
Stars: Ben Hecht, Monique van Vooren, Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig, Hy Stierman
28.
The Ben Hecht Show (1958–1959)
Episode:
Episode #1.25
(1958)
Talk-Show
Stars: Ben Hecht, Jack Kerouac
29. The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1956–1960)
60 min | Comedy
The Steve Allen Show was an American variety show hosted by Steve Allen.
Stars: Steve Allen, Gene Rayburn, Louis Nye, Skitch Henderson
Votes: 258