The University ofNorthern Iowa released a video of Baraka's 1994 Keynote speech to the International Conference on the Short Story in English. Baraka speaks about the relationship between the short story and poetry in his own work.

The University ofSan Francisco'sPoetry Center released a video called Color, an anthology of contemporary African-American poetry. Baraka reads on the video, which was scripted by poet Al Young.

New Letters On the Air issued an audio cassette of Baraka reading his poetry in 1988.

Everett/Edwards issued an audio cassette of Baraka reading his poems in 1976.

Baraka plays a visionary homeless prophet in the 1998 Hollywood film, Bullworth, starring Warren Beatty and Halle Berry.