A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.
In September 2022, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, died in police custody. She had been ar...
The Patti Smith Group's Rockpalast performance in 1979 was a live concert broadcast as part of the G...
Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...
A feminist activist organization determined to bring attention to superficiality and the rampant obj...
An intimate documentary about the life and times of Swiss poet and folk singer Mani Matter (1936-197...
The life and work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges, a long interview, fragments of some of hi...
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation...
"Write Down, I am an Arab" tells the story of Mahmoud Darwish, the Palestinian national poet and one...
This film is dedicated to Mas-Félipe Delavouët, the poet discovered by Lawrence Durrell, who wrote 1...
Blanca Luz Brum traveled an unusual path, through twentieth-century Latin America, actively particip...
Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who makes his home at Isla Negra on the coa...
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...
In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz...
Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggl...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
This is a story that’s never been told. SHOW HER THE MONEY addresses how women are getting less than...
Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...
The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, ke...