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...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...

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

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

An exploration on Paz's poetry by Paz himself, his childhood, his ideas about love and the nature of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

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

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