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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in Amer...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slaver...

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

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

RICHARD WRIGHT was an African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction that dealt wi...

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

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