Billy Woodberry Movies

A journey into the life and work of beat poet and activist Bob Kaufman and his insistence that poetry is fundamental to humanity's moral survival.

A musician spends New Year's Day trying to help his friend pay the rent.

Are even the best and brightest revolutionary movements doomed to inevitable compromise, betrayal and failure? That question haunts this documentary,...

Charlie Banks, chronically unemployed, struggles to find dignity and a meaning for life in the impoverished Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

The film uses a collection of post-World War II black & white photographs to portray the dockworkers of Marseilles, many of whom were of African...

A documentary that examines the films made by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist and offers a radically different perspective on a key period in...

In the course of a botched purse-snatching, a boy comes to question the path of his life. Billy Woodberry’s second film, and first completed in...

Following the 1884–85 Berlin Conference resolution on the partition of Africa, the Portuguese army uses a talented ensign to register the...