February 1954: ten mass graves with over 500 bodies are found in the region of Sofia, Bulgaria. Experts say they were killed and the deaths occurred in 1925. In one of the graves a glass eye is found - the glass eye of the poet Geo Milev.

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

Dir. Scott Calonico's film purports to solve the assassination of President Kennedy, pointing the fi...

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.

Docudrama that recounts the astonishing life story of a forgotten genius, English poet Alexander Pop...

After her first film about Friederike Mayröcker, filmmaker Carmen Tartarotti decided to make a secon...

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

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performan...

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

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

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

Drawing on a wealth of unseen archival material and unpublished notebooks, the film weaves a complex...

An account of the life and work of the Spanish poet Luis García Montero; a journey through his exper...

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

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

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz...

The Illuminati, a secretive group controlling global affairs, influences governments, religion, and ...

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...