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...
The Black Album places scrutiny on the notion of "Black Excellence" in a revisionist take.

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

The making of Jerzy Kosinski. The BBC documentary on the life and art of enigmatic novelist Jerzy Ko...

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences o...

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

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

A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archi...

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

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

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

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

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

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

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

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

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

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

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

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