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.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

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

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

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

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

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...

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

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

TARGET ST. LOUIS Vol. 1© tells the story of how the United State Military conducted secret chemical ...

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...

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

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

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...

The making of Jerzy Kosinski. The BBC documentary on the life and art of enigmatic novelist Jerzy Ko...

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combin...

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

A visually stunning film on acclaimed author David Adams Richards and his connection to one of Canad...

A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archi...

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...