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 untold story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson – brilliant African-Ameri...
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...
The Patti Smith Group's Rockpalast performance in 1979 was a live concert broadcast as part of the G...
A dramatized approach to the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) through the recreation...
A look at the confluence of the Red Scare, McCarthyism, and blacklists with the post-war activism by...
In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
African-American gravesites and burial grounds for enslaved persons have been lost or are disappeari...
A fragmented biography, inconclusive, partial, of the brilliant Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges...
Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through th...
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs a...
An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented a...
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
Based on a true story, renowned Korean poet, Yun Dong-ju, is detained and abused by the Japanese for...
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...
This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished...
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering h...
A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...
The life of irreverent poet Gregório de Mattos, who lived in Bahia, Brazil, in the 17th century. Nic...
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...