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James Baldwin Documentary Double Feature

  • Peoria Riverfront Museum 222 Southwest Washington Street Peoria, IL, 61602 United States (map)

I Heard It Through the Grapevine (1982) - James Baldwin revisits the settings of civil rights struggles of the 1960s in the Deep South.

Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) - A portrait of James Baldwin, one of the towering figures of 20th-century American literature, Black culture and political thought, filmed in Paris. The iconic writer is captured in many symbolic locations in Paris, where he was living at the time.

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Robert Altman’s 1970 M*A*S*H

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Richard Marquand’s 1981 Eye of the Needle