This documentary tells the story of the incredible and enduring friendship between Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, and how that friendship gave birth to the literary movement of the Beat Generation. It begins in New York, at the end of World War 2; it travels through San Francisco, Mexico City, Tangier, and Paris; and results in the publication of seminal literary works Howl(Ginsberg), On the Road(Kerouac), and Naked Lunch(Burroughs.) Each bookhelped lay the foundation and provide the inspiration for an anti-conformist youth movement. With a dozen other writers, the infernal trio blasted society, laid the seeds of angst and influenced literature and culture for generations to come.

Originally released by Film Ideas, 2013. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 15, 2019.

Beat Origins (2:56); --Jazz-Inflected Prose (5:01); -- In Exile in Morocco (2:00); -- Poem Sparks Movement (6:13); -- Trio in Tangier (5:20); -- "On the Road" (5:27); -- Gingsberg's French Period (2:59); -- Burroughs in Paris (4:38); -- Rubbing Elbows with Intellectuals (3:17); -- Civil Unrest (3:20); -- Beat Film (2:40); -- Bad Reviews (1:58); -- Circumventing American Censorship (3:45); -- Beat Generation Legacy (3:03); -- Credits: The Beat Generation (0:54); .