The Great Directors: The Making of 21st Century Hollywood - Episode 4: Documentary and Experimental Film
About this title: Program four centers on how, beginning in the 30s, directors made documentaries capturing exotic places, animals and people that blossomed into the megahit documentary features of the 21st Century, grossing hundreds of millions of ...
Great Poets of The World - Episode 1: The Poetry of Shakespeare
About this title: Explains that Shakespeare's poetry taps into all aspects of human nature. Traces the early life of the Bard and the influence of his classical education in the creation of Venus and Adonis and the Rape of Lucrece. In contrast, the ...
Great Poets of The World - Episode 5: English-language Poets: 1831-1894
About this title: This episode introduces a new wave in English poetry, when intimate, personal experiences, insights, or mental states were shared between the poet and the reader. From Poe's psychological thrillers to the love poems of the Browning...
Great Poets of The World - Episode 8: Poets of the Middle East and Asia
About this title: Begins with an exploration of the themes of poetry by Tang Dynasty master poets, Li Bai and Du Fu. Follows this with an introduction to the mystical writings of the Sufi poets, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Omar Khayyam and Hafez. Th...
Great Poets of The World - Episode 6: English-language Poets: 1895-1922
About this title: This episode focuses on the modern sentiments and intellectual themes of poetry written at the turn of the Twentieth Century. In America, Paul Laurence Dunbar's phrase "I know why the caged bird sings" has echoed throughout contemp...