Watch Looking for Langston (1989) Online

A black and white, fantasy-like recreation of high-society gay men during the Harlem Renaissance, with archival footage and photographs intercut with a story. A wake is going on, with mourners gathered around a coffin. Downstairs is an elegant bar where tuxedoed men dance and talk. One of them has a dream in which he comes upon Beauty, who seems to reject him, although when he awakes, Beauty is sleeping beside him. His story and his visits to the jazz and dance club are framed by voices reading from the poetry and essays of Hughes and others. The text is rarely explicit, but the freedom of gay Black men in the 1920s in Harlem is suggested and celebrated visually. Read More

Watch Looking for Langston online. Featuring Ben Ellison and Matthew Baidoo, Looking for Langston is classified as Drama genre movie with an average rating across the web of 5.9. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in United Kingdom and was released on 1989. Looking for Langston was directed by Isaac Julien. Read Less