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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

It has been over one hundred years since M. K. Čiurlionis left his lasting imprint on Lithuanian cul...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.