Gore Vidal

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

An in-depth investigation into the private world of the American writer J. D. Salinger (1919-2010), who lived most of his life behind the ...

Anchored by intimate, one-on-one interviews with the man himself, Nicholas Wrathall’s new documentary is a fascinating and wholly entertaining ...

The American composer and author Paul Bowles was a man with a great deal of charisma and influence. When he moved to Tangier, Morocco, in 1949, ...

A provocateur, a rebel, a performer, and a true American, Norman Mailer never stopped giving people something to talk about. This documentary ...

The strange history of the now abandoned American 1993-bill, «Don’t ask, don’t tell» where sexual orientation was a ...

A look at the life and work of American publisher Barney Rosset, who struggled to bring controversial works like “Tropic of Cancer” ...

ZERO: An Investigation into 9/11 has one central thesis: that the official version of the events surrounding the attacks on 9/11 cannot be true. ...

ONE BRIGHT SHINING MOMENT retraces George McGovern’s bold presidential campaign of 1972 – a grassroots campaign that fought for peace ...

This is a short film based on the 1979 film of the same name. The film is stylized with the actors wearing modernized robes and Roman jewelry and ...

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: “Deep Throat,” starring Linda Lovelace. ...

Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki’s ...

A contrarian and wickedly funny man, this PBS American Masters special explores Gore Vidal’s extraordinary life and work, joining him at ...

Vincent is an all-too-human man who dares to defy a system obsessed with genetic perfection. He is an “In-Valid” who assumes the ...

What “That’s Entertainment” did for movie musicals, “The Celluloid Closet” does for Hollywood homosexuality, as ...

BBC 2 produced this documentary on the Oz books of L. Frank Baum and the films and fantasies that they inspired, particularly the first book `The ...

Convinced he’ll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless ...

Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming ...

The story of how the classic epic “Ben-Hur” was made.

Millionaire conservative Bob Roberts launches an insurgent campaign against incumbent senator Brickley Paiste, firing up crowds at his rallies by ...

Gore Vidal’s historical novel is brought to life in this television production of Turner Network Television’s Billy the Kid.

In 1982, Gore Vidal, one of America’s greatest writers, challenged the American political establishment, and Jerry Brown, in his campaign ...

A Documentary on the Making of ‘Gore Vidal’s Caligula’