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...

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

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

Documentary on the life of the great Romanian-Jewish poet Paul Celan. Tormented by the experiences o...

Short documentary on Chilean poet Jorge Teillier (1935-1996), who comes back to Lautaro, on the sout...

Fernando Lemos, a Portuguese surrealist artist, fled from dictatorship to Brazil in 1952 searching f...

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

He is considered the greatest European poet of the Middle Ages and his work unfolds the whole panopt...

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

On April 12th, 1864, at an insignificant little fort, several hundred black Union soldiers fought a ...

A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...

Ninety-year-old sound artist and comedian Henry “Sandy” Jacobs lives a quirky existence at the end o...
Performance and conversation with husband-and-wife poets Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at a New Jersey...

A short documentary on the River Ouse, following it downstream from Lewes to Newhaven, meditating on...

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

Tara and Maya are inseparable, with the same tastes, habits, and hobbies. Years later, the two have ...

A theatrical documentary about Hrytsko Chubai, a genius of Ukrainian poetry, a connoisseur of litera...

American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition b...

Winter 1862. In the midst of the Civil War, the US Army sends a company of volunteer soldiers to the...