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 visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canad...

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

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...

Documentary about author Roald Dahl, produced for the British television series Imagine.

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this document...

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

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

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

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...

It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian cul...

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in ...

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