Searching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (2019)
• December 22nd, 2019 • 0h 58min
Documentary
Overview
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Released on: 2025-09-26
Documentary
One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...
What The Durrells Did Next
Released on: 2019-05-19
Documentary, History
Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...
Being in a Place: A Portrait of Margaret Tait
Released on: 2024-08-08
Documentary
Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...
The Last Book
Released on: 2019-10-10
Documentary
The film focuses on the exciting life journey of Swiss writer Katharina Zimmermann. She follows her ...
I Am Pablo Neruda
Released on:
Documentary
Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who makes his home at Isla Negra on the coa...
Nostalgies of the Far West
Released on: 1987-07-06
Documentary
Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the sout...
Paul Celan: the Poet Who Speaks Humanly
Released on: 2015-06-25
Documentary
Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences o...
The Eyes of Dante
Released on: 2021-03-02
Documentary, History, TV Movie
He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...
Richard Hugo: Kicking the Loose Gravel Home
Released on: 1976-01-01
Documentary
Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...
Prisoners of Beckett
Released on: 2005-10-21
Documentary
The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and da...
Jean Sénac, The Blacksmith of the Sun
Released on: 2003-01-01
Documentary
By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...
Nin E Tepueian: My Cry
Released on: 2020-01-24
Documentary
NIN E TEPUEIAN - MY CRY is a documentary tracks the journey of Innu poet, actress and activist, Nata...
Dans les yeux d'Elsa Triolet
Released on: 2022-09-10
Documentary, TV Movie
Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...
Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive
Released on: 2017-04-29
Documentary, History
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
Merton: A Film Biography
Released on: 1984-01-01
Documentary
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
Check the Gate: Putting Beckett on Film
Released on: 2003-02-05
Documentary
Follows the "Beckett on Film" project, which produced film adaptations of Samuel Beckett's nineteen ...
Hello My Dear
Released on: 2021-05-01
Documentary
The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...
Who's Afraid of Kathy Acker?
Released on: 2007-01-01
Documentary
Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker...
Hola, mi nombre es Oscar Lucero i les tengo una pregunta
Released on: 2018-04-17
Documentary
A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.
Burns in the USA
Released on: 2017-01-25
Documentary, History
Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...