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 life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...
A psychological, heart-wrenching love story that provides a unique and inside look at Charles Darwin...
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
The Movie "Hebrews to Negroes: Wake Up Black America" uncovers the true identity of the Children of ...
"Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a marc...
Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished nov...
This is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slaver...
The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the fir...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
This is the about the most admired poet in the History of Urdu and Persian writings, Mirza Ghalib
By the end of his illustrious career, Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves may well have been the preemin...
Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy is a feature-length documentary film highlighting the hi...
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...
Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and g...
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
During the Second World War, a special project is begun by the US Army Air Corps to integrate Africa...
The history of warfare as it relates to global Black society, broken down into 7 chapters that exami...