Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African American writer is chronicled in this inspiring program through exclusive interviews and personal recollection.

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in Amer...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England takes you on a journey throughout his...

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and ...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

RICHARD WRIGHT was an African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction that dealt wi...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slaver...

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...