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.

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

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

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

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

Biopic of the Turkish poet Nâzim Hikmet and Ahmet Ümit, who followed in his footsteps. Based on the ...

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

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...

Using the author's personal estate, current images of places where she lived or were dear to her, an...

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

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...