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.

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

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.

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

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

In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. ...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

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

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

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

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

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

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

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

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

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

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

The English novelist, John Le Carré discusses his life as a secret agent and writer in this document...

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