This American Experience tells Whitman's life story, from his working-class childhood in Long Island, to his years as a newspaper reporter in Brooklyn when he struggled to support his impoverished family, then to his reckless pursuit of the attention and affection he craved for his work, to his death in 1892.

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...

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

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...

Tara and Maya are inseparable, with the same tastes, habits, and hobbies. Years later, the two have ...

On April 12th, 1864, at an insignificant little fort, several hundred black Union soldiers fought a ...

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

A biography of the poet W. B. Yeats and his contribution to the Irish independence movement as a Pro...

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

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

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Unio...

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...

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

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

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...

Intimate portrait of poet, playwright, painter and filmmaker Derek Walcott, set in his beloved nativ...

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...

Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was o...

Five gay Black men who are HIV-positive discuss how they are battling the double stigmas surrounding...