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.
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and ...

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

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

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

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.

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

A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when t...

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

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

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

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

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

Eldar Ryazanov reads his poetry. An introspective movie on his multifaceted work.

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

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

This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...