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.

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

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

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

In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in ...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

In 1970, a British film crew set out to make a straightforward literary portrait of James Baldwin se...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ...

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

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

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

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

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