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

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

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

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

A documentary that chronicles the rise and decline of the black-owned ethnic beauty industry in Amer...

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

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

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

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

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

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

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...
Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisi...

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

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

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...

Learn about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, on the one hundredth anniversary of the crime, and how the...

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