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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

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

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

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