Biography and in-depth look of Beckett and his work.

A look back at the troubled life of genius British writer Virginia Woolf (1882-1941).

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

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

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

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

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

The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and da...

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...

Portrait of the writer Elsa Triolet, wife of poet Louis Aragon. The tile is a play on a famous poem ...

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The po...

The first Georgian full-length documentary follows the trip of the “king of Georgian poetry”, Akaki ...

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

Stéphane Mallarmé is one of the many educational documentaries that Éric Rohmer did for the televisi...
T. S. Eliot has been considered by many to be the leading American poet of this century. His contemp...

A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal l...

Examines the career and literary output of Pablo Neruda, who makes his home at Isla Negra on the coa...

A look at the theme of love in the life of the poet WH Auden, who wrote such famous poems as "Stop A...

Writers, publishers, fans, and friends share their perspectives and memories of sci-fi writer Philip...

Poet, singer / songwriter and ladies man Leonard Cohen is interviewed in his home about his life and...