Richard O. Moore Movies

Take This Hammer features KQED's mobile film unit following author and activist James Baldwin in the spring of 1963, as he's driven around San...

This documentary reflects on the lives and aspirations of an African American family - the Johns - who moved to West Oakland from Louisiana, focusing...

Documentary film about three veterans of the Civil Rights movement who have become peace spokesman for the new opposition activist. It traces their...

Alfred Leslie is a pivotal American artist-painter-filmmaker whose work spans the past fifty years. A contemporary of the Abstract Expressionists and...

A feature length film from acclaimed dance choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Mr. Greene recollects Navajo history through interviews with ancient tribesmen and reports on contemporary conditions, with emphasis on the progress...

An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an...

Follows the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from July to August 1963, as they undertake an African American voter registration drive in the town...

This episode is a study of the return of the spirit of romance to contemporary poetry, as exemplified by poets Robert Duncan and John Wieners.

Born in 1904, and first published by Ezra Pound in 1927, Louis Zukosky is the poet whose name is associated with the term objectivists. Although...

This episode focuses on Frank O'Hara and Ed Sanders. Assistant Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frank...