![Marlon Riggs](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/hy9Qv8NPdgZ0A1xq0CKeLh2uEeI.jpg)
Marlon Riggs
Marlon Troy Riggs (February 3, 1957 – April 5, 1994) was an American filmmaker, educator (professor), poet, and gay rights activist. He produced, wrote, and directed several television documentaries, including Ethnic Notions, Tongues Untied, Color Adjustment, and Black is... Black Ain't. Riggs created aesthetically innovative and socially provocative films that examine past and present representations of race and sexuality in America. The Marlon Riggs Collection is now housed at Stanford University Libraries.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 2.017 |
Birthday | 1957-02-03 |
Place of Birth | Fort Worth, Texas, USA |
Also Known As | Marlon Troy Riggs, Marlon T. Riggs, |
![Tongues Untied](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wbrcRd695aB8D6pkWh0hSurKRbO.jpg)
1990
![Tongues Untied](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wbrcRd695aB8D6pkWh0hSurKRbO.jpg)
Tongues Untied
6.7/54
Marlon Riggs, with assistance from other gay Black men, especially poet Essex Hemphill, celebrates Black men loving Black men as a revolutionary act....
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Tongues Untied
![Anthem](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vuWoDleXEBHXRuSJq1zlWZsuCHG.jpg)
1993
![Anthem](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/vuWoDleXEBHXRuSJq1zlWZsuCHG.jpg)
Anthem
4.4/12
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
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Anthem
![Black Is… Black Ain’t](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sqEUXvyBBX7iFXbURAo40ELQLp7.jpg)
1994
![Black Is… Black Ain’t](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/sqEUXvyBBX7iFXbURAo40ELQLp7.jpg)
Black Is… Black Ain’t
6.1/10
African-American documentary filmmaker Marlon Riggs was working on this final film as he died from AIDS-related complications in 1994; he addresses th...
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Black Is… Black Ain’t
![I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/trURuhbyRPuVcs8F472P21QiQdH.jpg)
1996
![I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/trURuhbyRPuVcs8F472P21QiQdH.jpg)
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
3.5/2
Incorporating archival material, revelatory verite footage, and clips from his own work, a documentary which chronicles the life and works of the blac...
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I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs
![Positive Men](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dP32xHLDkd3QGYkIX5AqCXwoLA2.jpg)
1995
![Positive Men](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/dP32xHLDkd3QGYkIX5AqCXwoLA2.jpg)
Positive Men
0/0
Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s. Memories of New York and San Franc...
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Positive Men
![Absolutely Positive](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xixmFT2DuXfowYqlgMiYdA7Ny5t.jpg)
1991
![Absolutely Positive](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/xixmFT2DuXfowYqlgMiYdA7Ny5t.jpg)
Absolutely Positive
1/1
The narrator/filmmaker is Peter Adair (Word is Out) and the disease is the HIV virus. Adair has asked 11 people — women and men, gay and straight, fro...
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