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- DirectorLochlan ShelferStarsJack GrahamThe wanderings of a man as he tries to understand his city in verse. Based upon the poems "San Francisco Blues" by Jack Kerouac.
- DirectorAlan O'HashiStarsJohn Allen CassadyJake MartinSarah L. ScottJack 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 to get brighter the more we climbed the High Plains. We were in Wyoming now. ... As the truck reached the outskirts of Cheyenne we saw the high red lights of the local radio station, and suddenly we were bucking through a great crowd of people that poured along both sidewalks. 'Hell's bells, it's Wild West Week,' said Slim." That's how Kerouac described the outskirts of Cheyenne in July 1947 from the back of a pick up truck traveling from Nebraska, probably on the Lincoln Highway. After his crazy night in Cheyenne, Kerouac (Sal Paradise) hitchhikes to Denver to meet some rowdy, free-living friends waiting out the post World War II slump in the Mile High City. His pals include a Columbia classmate named Allen Ginsberg (Carlo Marx) and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarty). "On the Trail: Jack Kerouac in Cheyenne" documents a coming of age theme spanning three generations of "beats". The movie melds historic literature, still images and interviews with next "beat" generation members, including John Allen Cassady, son of Neal Cassady, who reads the part of Sal Paradise and juxtaposes them with 2009 video of Cheyenne Frontier Days and interviews of "beat" literature students from New Vista High School in Boulder, Colorado. The project is a documentary, educational and non-commercial.
- StarsEdward HerrmannDavid HalberstamB.B. KingAn in depth documentary of all aspects of life in the 1950s.
- DirectorMichael PolishStarsJean-Marc BarrKate BosworthJosh LucasA recounting of Jack Kerouac's three sojourns to the cabin in Big Sur owned by his friend, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
- DirectorStorm ThorgersonStarsBernard HillPhil DanielsThom BookerHow drugs have influenced artistic production in the course of the last 200 years, focusing on major European and American literary figures and visual artists.
- DirectorRanald MacDougallStarsLeslie CaronGeorge PeppardJanice RuleA love story between two misunderstood new bohemians who don't even understand themselves.
- StarsLawrence DaneJonathan ErlandBruno GerussiCanadian series based on the famous Jack Kerouac novel.
- DirectorJohn ByrumStarsNick NolteSissy SpacekJohn HeardThe life and friendship among the icons of the Beat Generation: Neal Cassady, Carolyn Cassady, and Jack Kerouac.
- DirectorCharles F. HaasStarsSteve CochranMamie Van DorenRay DantonA detective is assigned to track down and capture a crazed serial rapist.
- DirectorMaria BeattyStarsWilliam S. BurroughsJim CarrollGregory CorsoMaria Beatty's documentary exploring the insights and influences of the American Beat Poets. The film conveys their consciousness and sensibility through interviews with William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Diane Di Prima, among others. Also weaves in additional commentary from contemporary musicians, poets and writers such as Marianne Faithfull, Richard Hell, Lydia Lunch and Henry Rollins. Also expands upon how the poets reached new levels of creativity and inspired social change.
- DirectorEdmond T. GrévilleStarsDavid FarrarNoëlle AdamChristopher LeeAn impetuous teenage girl becomes involved with Soho's beatnik and striptease scenes to spite her staid architect father and her French ex-stripper stepmother.
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsPeter WellerJudy DavisIan HolmAfter developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa.
- DirectorNoah BuschelStarsTate DonovanAmy RyanGlenn FitzgeraldThe story of what happened to Neal Cassady after Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" came out. Deals primarily with Neal's relationship to his fictional alter-ego, Dean Moriarty.