If you are interested in the Beat generations of the fifties are there a few documentary films that you might want to watch in the comforts of your home on your television. These movies show important events in each of the respective beat writer's lives and how they came to the forefront of the Beat Generation.
I wrote a best of list that lists these three interesting documentaries. Each of these films has a great array of real life characters.

This is a HD video of two cottonmouths fighting over a female. I shot this video in Austin Texas using my Canon 5D Mark II camera. This is a fairly unusual site to come across. I found them by luck because I saw them when I was driving over a bridge.

One of the most famous of the beatniks is an author named Jack Kerouac. Kerouac came to fame as a writer when he published On The Road. He is considered a great beatnik writer by many. Jack Kerouac’s biography can be found just about anywhere on line. He is a very written about author and cultural figure. There is a film called “Jack Kerouac: King of Beats” that I found very entertaining, interesting and insightful. It is a biography of Kerouac and it is a pretty good movie.