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.

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

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

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

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...

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

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

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.

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

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. ...

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

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

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the fir...

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

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

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