One Irish Rover, a documentary focusing on the words and music of Van Morrison, was broadcast in 1991 on BBC 2 Arena TV special and on A&E cable television program. It is a series of live songs with commentary by Morrison about music and poetry, it has some truly amazing performances. It includes the footage of Morrison and Dylan in Greece, Georgie Fame at Ronnie Scott’s, John Lee Hooker, The Chieftains and Danish Radio Big Band.

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

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

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

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

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

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

A Ghanaian fashion student and a Nigerian squash player are among the Africans making a life in 70s ...
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemp...

Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conj...

Rival poets Reginald Bunthorne (a 'fleshy poet') and Archibald Grosvenor (an 'idyllic poet') vie for...

Stéphane Mallarmé is one of the many educational documentaries that Éric Rohmer did for the televisi...

The film is an adaptation of the life of 18th-century Armenian poet and troubadour Sayat-Nova.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the sout...

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