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.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

The first Georgian full-length documentary follows the trip of the “king of Georgian poetry”, Akaki ...

A descendant of the largest slave-trading family in U.S. history, filmmaker Katrina Browne explores ...

TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...

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

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

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

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

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...

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

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the sout...