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.

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

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...

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

In THE COLOR OF FEAR, eight American men participated in emotionally charged discussions of racism. ...

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

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

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and ...

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

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

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

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

A documentary following the life of Olaudah Equiano, based on his autobiography "The Interesting Nar...

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

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

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

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

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

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