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 dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The seven sisters of the outcast LeFleur family try to survive in a post-Civil War Deep South. The m...

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

A film about the poet Oscar Lucero during the year 2012 in La Legua.

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

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

Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...

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

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

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

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

Jean Sénac, born in Béni Saf in Algeria in 1926 and died in Algiers in 1973, is today considered one...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...

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

Smoky little clubs, late nights, late nights of conversation over a glass of beer and a guitar. The ...

The Hurricane Maria represented a historic event for the island of Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican spi...

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

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

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

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