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.

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

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

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

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

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago...

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

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