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...

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

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

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

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

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 his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

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

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

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

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

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

Two brothers, separated by time and prison bars, reestablish contact. Inspired by James Baldwin's sh...

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

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

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

The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknow...

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