Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper(1987)

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper Synopsis

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.

Langston Hughes: The Dream Keeper (1987) is a documentary film directed by St. Clair Bourne, released on February 23, 1987 with a runtime of 1h. It stars Amiri Baraka.