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.

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

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...
Poetic stroll in the work of Jean Genet.

This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...

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

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

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

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

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

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Unio...

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

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

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

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...

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

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

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and ...

When the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his flirtatious wife Caitlin sweep into war-torn London, the la...

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