Author Movies

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

J.R.R.T.: A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien is a 1992 documentary, narrated by Judi Dench, produced to celebrate the centenary of J.R.R. Tolkien's birth. It i...

Sébastien owns a book shop and has literary ambitions of his own. He befriends Joseph, an established novelist whose work he admires. But when Joseph...

1990 TV adaptation of a 1979 biographical play by Ned Sherrin & Caryl Brahms, based on the life of conductor and impresario Sir Thomas Beecham. With T...

An author struggling with writer's block checks into a rural Texas cabin looking for inspiration. He gets more than he bargained for.

Things That Go Bump in the Night: Tales of Haunted New England takes you on a journey throughout historic New England collecting tales of the supernat...

An interview with a young Toni Morrison. The video also shows Toni Morrison going shopping, at a party, and at work. Her commentary provides an incisi...

The making of Jerzy Kosinski. The BBC documentary on the life and art of enigmatic novelist Jerzy Kosinski. Through interviews with his second wife Ki...

The most controversial political commentator of our day, and the author of three New York Times bestsellers, Coulter has a mad-cap mouth and an allerg...

A 1929 Fox newsreel interview with the author and spiritualist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. He speaks about his greatest literary creation, Sherlock Holme...

The Fantasy Makers is a feature documentary which examines the profound impact fantasy pioneers C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and George MacDonald have m...

A ritual of grids, reflections and chasms; a complete state of entropy; a space that devours itself; a vertigo that destroys the gravity of the Earth;...

RICHARD WRIGHT was an African-American author of novels, short stories and non-fiction that dealt with powerful themes and controversial topics. Much...

A veterinarian and a novelist compete for the heart of a lady rancher.

In a world, where an original story is vital for a career as a writer, Liam finds the price for success high.

Mircea Eliade was a traditionalist Romanian novelist and philosopher. Following the disaster of the Second World War, he moved to Paris and Chicago, b...

An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karenina.

A thriller writer finds his story coming to horrifying life when a mysterious drifter arrives at the door of his isolated cabin.

A famous novelist moves to a quiet country cottage with his new wife Vicki and attempts to settle into a relaxed lifestyle. Things quickly grow compli...