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.

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

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

A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin...

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Nata...

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

The story of Jack Johnson, the first African American Heavyweight boxing champion.

During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate Africa...

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

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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