Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker: Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary

Armando's Tale of Charles Dickens

Armando Iannucci presents a personal argument in praise of the genius of Charles Dickens. Through the prism of the autho...

J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds

This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished literary work. We w...

S10 - that things continue to go well for me

Stien den Hollander, stage name S10, a candid and vulnerable insight into her life. In the documentary, directors Linda...

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women

Louisa May Alcott, author of "Little Women," leads a literary double life, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, an...

Brontë Country: The Story of Emily, Charlotte & Anne Brontë

Travel back to Victorian Britain and wander the cobbled streets of Haworth to the sites that inspired the great Brontë s...

Philip K Dick: A Day in the Afterlife

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over a hundred short stor...

Mircea Eliade et la redécouverte du sacré

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he...

The Fantasy Makers

The Fantasy Makers is a feature documentary which examines the profound impact fantasy pioneers C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolki...

Rumer Godden: An Indian Affair

Rumer Godden the 88 year old author is taken back to India, where she lived from 1908-1945 to revisit her unconventional...

The Man Who Drank the Universe

It is late 2004, and 34-year-old Englishman Alistair Appleton is about to fly from London to the Brazilian coast, where...

Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge

Patricia Routledge, as patron of the Beatrix Potter Society, presents a documentary on the author's life and work.

Kathy Acker

Documentary about Kathy Acker where she talks about her writing and her life in New York.

No Maps for These Territories

On an overcast morning in 1999, William Gibson, father of cyberpunk and author of the cult-classic novel Neuromancer, st...

Best of Enemies

A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals,...

Ardisson, l'Homme en Noir : l'hommage

J.R.R.T. : A Study of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892-1973

J.R.R.T.: A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 1992 documentary, narrated by Judi Dench, produced to celebrate the centenary o...

This Is Joan Collins

A feature-length documentary on the life of one of the last surviving actresses from the golden age of Hollywood – Joan...

The Mindscape of Alan Moore

The Mindscape of Alan Moore is a psychedelic journey into one of the world's most powerful minds; chronicling the life a...

Sex, Lies and Jerzy Kosinski

The making of Jerzy Kosinski. The BBC documentary on the life and art of enigmatic novelist Jerzy Kosinski. Through inte...

Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time

A documentary 33 years in the making. A director and friend of Kurt Vonnegut seeks through his archives to create the fi...