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

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

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

A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

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

Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Becket...

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

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

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

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

About Jösta Hagelbäck (1945-2009), Swedish film director, writer, poet, musician, actor etc. A human...

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

Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who makes his home at Isla Negra on the coa...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...

The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknow...