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.

United States, September 1st, 2016. American football player Colin Kaepernick kneels during the nati...

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

Travel back to Victorian Britain and wander the cobbled streets of Haworth to the sites that inspire...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

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

Chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials...

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

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

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

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

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

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

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

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

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

The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces ...

The life was cruel with Ivas. The landlord sent him at war, and his girlfriend – in the house of ill...

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...

This was a labour of love combining the work of some incredible artists to bring Máire Mhac an tSaoi...