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.

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 creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, ke...

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.

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

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 ...
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...

The film seeks to address the risks that Ziraldo's work takes. In a building abandoned ten years ago...

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

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

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian F...

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

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

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

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

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...