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.

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...

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

Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably he...

A lowly bookkeeper (me), shot entirely on videotape (Sony Hi8), recites a poem about Tuesdays (deriv...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Documentary about the poet Miguel Ramón Utrera.
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...

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

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

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

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...

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