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.

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

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

Based on the autobiographical book "Ya -sam" (I-myself) by Vladimir Mayakovsky the leading Russian F...

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

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...

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

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...

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

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

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

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

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

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

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

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

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