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

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...

NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Nata...

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

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

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

Documentary about author Roald Dahl, produced for the British television series Imagine.

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

Through interspersed conversation and prose, this experimental documentary follows a poet and a neur...

Travel back to Victorian Britain and wander the cobbled streets of Haworth to the sites that inspire...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

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

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

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

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

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

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

This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of...