Poetry Movies

A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of Britain's greatest poets.

At the end of the Reagan years, rocker and confrontational performance artist Lydia Lunch launches a broadside. From a formal podium, she attacks the...

Spooky stuff is afoot in a French school. All of a sudden, 10-year-old Daniel finds himself alone with Marthe – their encounter is both tender...

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

Akbari was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007 and she lost her breasts due to the cancer. After she directed, wrote and acted 10+4 which showed her...

A collection of three poems that explores the ending of a love that was once seen as everything.

Lucien Francoeur, rock poet of the French imagination of North America, lives the destiny he has chosen for himself at 200 miles an hour.

Based on the Edgar A. Guest poem of the same name, this is photographic ode to the American South, featuring representative scenery. Mendelsohn's...

A schizophrenic patient is is wasting away in a mental institution, until a young doctor encourages him to write poetry. The resulting masterpieces...

When Robert Lax was approached in the early 1980s about doing a video documentary on him, he had only one condition—that it be focused on his...

After a popular girl loses a poetry contest to an outcast, they develop an unexpected interest in each other – but is their young love meant to...

Kimiko, a Tokyo white-collar working girl, lives with her serious, intellectual, haiku-writing mother. Kimiko seeks to marry her boyfriend but needs...

A young woman goes on a cathartic journey through memory and imagination inspired by the performers at an open mic.

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower...

Few of us have stopped to consider the lives of the workers who manufacture the objects that make up our daily lives. We use these objects without...

The director's father, Professor Horst E.M. Schüppel - a 23 year old teacher in the Soviet occupied zone of East Germany - was a founding member...

Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as recalled by Aragon, with commentary by Elsa.

Filmmaker Alan Berliner documents his first cousin, the poet-translator Edwin Honig, as he succumbs to Alzheimer's.