diff --git a/django/views/__init__.py b/django/views/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2d..95b0c6b865e 100644
--- a/django/views/__init__.py
+++ b/django/views/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+from django.views.generic.base import View
+
+__all__ = ['View']
diff --git a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
index d560cfed19a..5dfe9c00f9f 100644
--- a/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/contributing/writing-code/coding-style.txt
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ Imports
 
 * Use convenience imports whenever available. For example, do this::
 
-      from django.views.generic import View
+      from django.views import View
 
   instead of::
 
diff --git a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
index e477fd1ea4f..dd8a81d800b 100644
--- a/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/class-based-views/base.txt
@@ -19,7 +19,12 @@ View
 .. class:: django.views.generic.base.View
 
     The master class-based base view. All other class-based views inherit from
-    this base class.
+    this base class. It isn't strictly a generic view and thus can also be
+    imported from ``django.views``.
+
+    .. versionchanged:: 1.10
+
+        The ability to import from ``django.views`` was added.
 
     **Method Flowchart**
 
@@ -30,7 +35,7 @@ View
     **Example views.py**::
 
         from django.http import HttpResponse
-        from django.views.generic import View
+        from django.views import View
 
         class MyView(View):
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.10.txt b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
index 830f11b66d8..33ca4bd12cf 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.10.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.10.txt
@@ -208,7 +208,8 @@ Forms
 Generic Views
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-* ...
+* The :class:`~django.views.generic.base.View` class can now be imported from
+  ``django.views``.
 
 Internationalization
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
index 5e3351e90cf..45ffe5b6355 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/intro.txt
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ something like::
 In a class-based view, this would become::
 
     from django.http import HttpResponse
-    from django.views.generic import View
+    from django.views import View
 
     class MyView(View):
         def get(self, request):
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ and methods in the subclass. So that if your parent class had an attribute
 ``greeting`` like this::
 
     from django.http import HttpResponse
-    from django.views.generic import View
+    from django.views import View
 
     class GreetingView(View):
         greeting = "Good Day"
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ A similar class-based view might look like::
 
     from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
     from django.shortcuts import render
-    from django.views.generic import View
+    from django.views import View
 
     from .forms import MyForm
 
diff --git a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
index 5212381a657..07b2eda2bc8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/class-based-views/mixins.txt
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ We'll demonstrate this with the ``Author`` model we used in the
 
     from django.http import HttpResponseForbidden, HttpResponseRedirect
     from django.urls import reverse
-    from django.views.generic import View
+    from django.views import View
     from django.views.generic.detail import SingleObjectMixin
     from books.models import Author
 
@@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ You can of course pass through keyword arguments to
 would in your URLconf, such as if you wanted the ``AuthorInterest`` behavior
 to also appear at another URL but using a different template::
 
-    from django.views.generic import View
+    from django.views import View
 
     class AuthorDetail(View):
 
diff --git a/tests/view_tests/views.py b/tests/view_tests/views.py
index f80c7ec76a8..9e53c14d5b6 100644
--- a/tests/view_tests/views.py
+++ b/tests/view_tests/views.py
@@ -10,13 +10,13 @@ from django.http import Http404, HttpResponse, JsonResponse
 from django.shortcuts import render
 from django.template import TemplateDoesNotExist
 from django.urls import get_resolver
+from django.views import View
 from django.views.debug import (
     SafeExceptionReporterFilter, technical_500_response,
 )
 from django.views.decorators.debug import (
     sensitive_post_parameters, sensitive_variables,
 )
-from django.views.generic import View
 
 from . import BrokenException, except_args