Watch The Source: The Story of The Beats and The Beat Generation

When Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs met at Columbia University in the 1940s, they spawned a movement, then called the Beats, that set precedents for the political, hippie and spiritual movements of the 1960s and '70s. This comprehensive portrait of the Beat Generation includes interviews with virtually every surviving figure from this period.

The Source: The Story of The Beats and The Beat Generation is a 2018 documentary with a runtime of 1 hour and 28 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.2 and a MetaScore of 66.