Where to watch Ken Jacobs in the UK
Find every Ken Jacobs film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 4 May 2026.
A pioneer of the American film avant-garde of the 1960s and '70s, Ken Jacobs is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. From his first films of the late 1950s to his recent experiments with digital video, his investigations and innovations have influenced countless artists. A New Yorker by birth, Jacobs graduated from City University to find himself in the midst of the downtown art scene of the 1960s, which included artists Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, beat writers Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac; and the experimental theater troupes of Trisha Brown and Yvonne Rainer. Althou…
Ken Jacobs films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring Ken Jacobs, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- What Is Cinema? (2013) as Self
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011) Director
- 365 Day Project (2007) as Self
- Jonas in the Desert (1994) as Self
- Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968) as Self
- Lost, Lost, Lost (1976) as Self
- He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life (1986) as Self (archive footage)
- Birth of a Nation (1997) as Self
- Art-House America: Austin Film Society (2023) as Self
- 20 Little Films (2012) Director
- Fragments of Paradise (2022) as Self
- As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000) as Self
- From Introduction to Orson Welles’s Falstaff: Chimes at Midnight (2023) Director
- Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis (2007) as Self
- Momma's Man (2008) as Dad
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) as Himself
- Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2025) as Self
- Sleepless Nights Stories (2011) as Self
- Home Movies 1971-81 (1985) Cast
- Little Stabs at Happiness (1963) Director
- Bill's Hat (1967) Cast
- Keaton's Cops (1991) Writer
- Window (1964) Cinematography
- Please Leave a Message: Anthology Film Archives Voicemails Through the Ages (2022) Cast
- A Date with Shirley (2026) Director
- Seeking the Monkey King (2011) Director
- Blonde Cobra (1963) Director
- Jonas Mekas in Kodachrome Days (2009) Director
- Capitalism: Slavery (2007) Director
- Orchard Street (1955) Director
- Huge Pupils (1968) as Himself
- Mountaineer Spinning (2004) Director
- Cinematic Correspondences: Jonas Mekas - J.L. Guerin (2011) as Himself
- Horizons (1973) Cast
- Santos Dumont: Pré-Cineasta? (2010) as Himself
- THE WHOLE SHEBANG (2019) Director
- Scotch Tape (1962) Cast
- Quartet Number One (1991) Cast
- For Life, Against the War (1967) Director
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969) Director
- Looting For Rodney (1995) Director
- Abstract Eternalism (2021) Director
- XCXHXEXRXRXIXEXSX (2021) Editor
- Star Spangled to Death (2004) Director
- Spaceworks (2020) Director
- Notes on the Buffalo Conference: “Autobiography in American Independent Cinema” (1973) Cast
- Circling Zero: Part One, We See Absence (2002) Director
- The Signing (2009) Director
- New York Ghetto Fishmarket 1903 (2007) Director
- Perfect Film (1985) Director
- Tourists of the Familiar 10 (2023) Director
- Bitemporal Vision: The Sea (1994) Director
- Love Story (2008) Director
- Whirlpool (2020) Director
- Let There Be Whistle Blowers (2005) Director
- Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice (1956) Director
- Reminiscences of Jonas Mekas (2016) Cast
- "Slow is Beauty"-Rodin (2009) Director
- Writhing City (2023) Director
- Failure (2019) Director
- Capitalism Defeats Life on Earth, Cab in Rain (2017) Director
- Red Green (2020) Director
- The Death of P'town (1961) Director
- Lavender (2010) as Self
- Downtown Loft with Skylights (2026) Director
- Street Vendor (2012) Director
- Sebastian and Jonas Leaving the Party (2019) Director
- Shelley Duvall is Olive Oyl (2017) Director
- Foliage in Moving Car Window (2020) Director
- Rubble (2020) Director
- Turbulent Waters (2011) Director
- Urban Peasants (1975) Director
- Lisa and Joey in Connecticut (1965) Director
- Soft Rain (1968) Director
- Globe (1969) Director
- Jerry Takes A Back Seat, Then Passes Out Of The Picture (1975) Director
- Empty Seats (2015) Director
- Period Piece (2020) Director
- What Happened on 23rd Street in 1901 (2009) Director
- Waiting Room Window (2020) Director
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Most-watched Ken Jacobs films currently: What Is Cinema? (2013), 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011), 365 Day Project (2007), Jonas in the Desert (1994), Diaries, Notes, and Sketches (1968).
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