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.

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

About Swedish artist, painter, sculptor and set designer Sven "X-et" Erixson, presented with Lars Jo...

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

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

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the...

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

A fourteen-minute documentary splitted in two parts where we can see Anne Sexton at her home reading...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...

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

It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian cul...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

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

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey...

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

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