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.

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

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...

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

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

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

In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. ...

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

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

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

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...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

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

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

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

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

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Nar...

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

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