
Ralph Ellison was an African-American writer and essayist, who's only novel Invisible Man (1953) gained a wide critical success. Ellison's ambitious journey from a childhood of hardship and poverty to celebrated African American writer is chronicled in this inspiring program through exclusive interviews and personal recollection.

Ralph Ellison
Self (archive footage)

An Angel at My Table
1990

The Tuskegee Airmen
1995

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1987

Something About Halfdan
2006

Merton: A Film Biography
1984

Forever a Woman
1955

Crownsville Hospital: From Lunacy to Legacy
2018

Grid
2021

The Price of Protest
2019

Dance First
2023

Malcolm X
1992

Noble Sissle Jr.: Am I Still Going to Vietnam?
2018
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