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 detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. ...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...
Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was o...
It's a sensitive, moving doc chronicling the life of Tétrault's brother Philip , a Montreal poet, mu...
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...
When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...
"Before I left today, I almost forgot to answer a lot of e-mails."
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...
Half blind and half deaf, ostraziced Cuban writer Rafael Alcides tries to finish his unpublished nov...
Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
One Irish Rover, a documentary focusing on the words and music of Van Morrison, was broadcast in 199...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
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...