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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in Amer...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the...

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