Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987) blends Documentary elements. Top cast includes Amiri Baraka. The plot follows a central conflict that grows in scope as the film progresses.

Actor: Amiri Baraka

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.