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.

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

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

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

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

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

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...

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

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...

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...

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

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...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...

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