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Showing 1 - 10 of 41 titles with a criteria of Subject is Literature

A remarkable artist who helps us see the humanity in others.

Bullfrog Films | 1995 | 28 minutes

Why do some books become bestsellers? This documentary examines the phenomenon in today's global publishing industry.

Icarus Films | 2006 | 52 minutes

An extended discussion with Prof. Edward Said filmed less than a year before his death. The noted literary critic and Palestinian activist delivers his final testament about his life and work as a committed intellectual.

Icarus Films | 2004 | 114 minutes

After his only son is murdered in the Mexican drug war, a mystic poet launches an international crusade to save his country.

Bullfrog Films | 2016 | 55 minutes

Compellingly brings out the contradictory feelings that war evokes - fear and anger, but also seduction, fascination and excitement. With Michael Herr (Apocalypse Now, Dispatches).

Icarus Films | 2001 | 52 minutes

Nine women paint a portrait of lesbian sexuality against a backdrop of lesbian representations in popular culture.

National Film Board of Canada | 1992 | 85 minutes

The story of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, author of One Hundred Years of Solitude and Nobel Prize winner.

Icarus Films | 2015 | 90 minutes

A summation of the life and work of Gore Vidal: novelist, essayist, polemicist, intellectual and bon vivant, who played a critical role in American public life for more than 50 years.

Bullfrog Films | 2014 | 89 minutes