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.
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expresse...
This documentary highlights the evolution of Brazil's Circo Voador venue from homespun artists' perf...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...
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."
One Irish Rover, a documentary focusing on the words and music of Van Morrison, was broadcast in 199...
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of t...
The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who l...
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Unio...
Tara and Maya are two inseparable friends in India. Their tastes, habits, and hobbies are the same. ...
The elusive author of Waiting for Godot cooperated in the production of this portrait, which traces ...
The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imp...
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President-elect Abraham Lincoln during a train rid...
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Cacaso, a Brazilian poet, lived in Rio de Janeiro. Born Antonio Carlos de Brito (1944-1987) he was o...
This lengthy docudrama records the harrowing conditions at the Confederacy's most notorious prisoner...