Browse Films
Showing 1 - 10 of 43 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
In the 1950's, Ivory Coast artist Bruly Bouabré created hundreds of pictograms based on one-syllable words in his language, Bété.
Icarus Films | 2005 | 17 minutes
The story of the prominent early Canadian literary figure - who was also a civil servant responsible for a brutal Native assimilation program.
Icarus Films | 1995 | 57 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
