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.

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

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

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

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

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combin...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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