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Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation

Find your own road

5.7(6)20251h 31m1

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" finds new relevance as modern travelers and cultural figures like Josh Brolin, W. Kamau Bell and Natalie Merchant reveal how his quest for authentic experience resonates powerfully in our screen-saturated era — offering a lyrical meditation on what it means to truly experience the journey.

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Released
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Language
English

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Director

Ebs Burnough

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United Kingdom, United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereTribeca Film Festival5 Jun 2025
    • Theatrical (limited)NR1 Aug 2025
  • IsraelIL

    • Digital / OTTYes VOD + Partner TV+20 Oct 2026
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereLocarno Film Festival12 Aug 2025

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Kerouac's Road: The Beat of a Nation was released on 1 August 2025.

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    tender_buttkiss

    9/13/2026

    2/10

    Huge fan of Jack Kerouac and so many beat poets/writers from that generation, so when I saw a documentary about one of his most influential books I immediately had to watch it. Took me around 20 min to realize what a boring piece of crap it was and turn it off. Just a bunch of celebrities and nobodies sniffing their own farts and talking about their life? Nothing really to do with the book itself and other than presu…

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