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

During World War II, the US Army's only all-Black, all-women battalion takes on an impossible missio...

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

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

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

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

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...

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

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

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

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences o...

A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archi...

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

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

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 documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

Jack Kerouac's life is examined through interviews with his contemporaries and friends including All...