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.

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

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

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

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

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

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

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

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

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the fir...

"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

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

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

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

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

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...