Edgar Allan Poe: Architect of Dreams
Poet, short-story writer, critic. Poe was all of these. Successful master of both the story form and the language of poetry, his diversity and success in the written word belying a fascinating, yet often unhappy life search.

Emily Dickinson: A Certain Slant of Light
CINE Golden Eagle
Red Ribbon American Film Festival.

Academy Award Nominated actress Julie Harris takes us inside Emily's world, her family home in Amherst, Mt. Holyoke Seminary where she studied, and the world outside her windows.

Gordon Parks "Visions"
He's been a waiter, a train porter, and a piano player in a brothel. He gained world-wide recognition as an award-winning photographer for LIFE Magazine, the first Afro-American to hold such a staff position. He wrote the acclaimed best selling novel "The Learning Tree and became the first Afro-American to direct a major Hollywood motion picture with this much praised film adaptation. Within the moments, the scattered fragments, the fleeting images which his cameras and notebooks have recorded, are pictures of a nation, strong and weak, black and white, rich and poor, and the words of a man, the son of a Kansas dirt farmer whose fascinating life journey sought and achieved a unique personal vision

Eugene O'Neill: Journey into Genius
Driven by the chaos within himself, this awesome talent became arguably America's greatest playwright and the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Herman Melville: Consider the Sea
A unique look into the life and work of one of the giants of American literary history. Stirring excerpts from Melville's writing interweave with poignant photography and biographical insight. A life of work and dreams all drawn, much like Melville, as powerful and mysterious as the sea.

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Isaac in America
When I was born my mother asked the midwife, "Is it a boy or a girl?" and the midwife said, Neither one, It's a writer,"' claims Singer in this wryly endearing profile. One of the greatest authors of our time, he was nominated for an Academy Award, and was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Katherine Anne Porter: The Eye of Memory
Told through the vision of her stories, with the loving memories of her friends, this film presents a fascinating portrayal of this most gifted and unusual Pulitzer Prize winner.

Mark Twain: A Musical Biography
An original biographical tribute to Mark Twain. An extravaganza of singing, dancing and acting.

Maxwell Anderson: Lost in the Stars
There are some who are so gifted they can recreate a unique magic again and again. For almost three decades this most original, daring and entertaining playwright produced a wonderful body of work from Pulitzer Prize-winning Both Your Houses to What Price Glory, Winterset and Anne of a Thousand Days. 60 min.

Nabokov On Kafka "The Metamorphosis"
Featuring Christopher Plummer as a witty Nabokov, providing an entertaining insight into Kafka's perplexing The Metamorphosis".

Lorraine Hansbury: To Be Young, Black & Gifted
When A Raisin In The Sun opened on Broadway, the world of literature had found an exciting new voice. In her word, letters and plays there is a uniquely gifted vision of one who left us so young, yet so enriched.

Ray Bradbury: An American Icon
An inside look at " the world's greatest living science fiction writer." Join the engaging Bradbury in his home, on the lecture circuit and at rehearsals of his plays. A prolific career which has spanned more than 50 years.