ENG 231 / ENG 232 - American Literature

Online, 86 min. (2005). From NC LIVE: "In 1883, the young Cather was plucked from her luxurious home in Virginia and dropped into the tall grass prairies of Nebraska, an experience that exhilarated her and became the force behind all of her great novels - O Pioneer, My Antonia, Death Comes for the Archbishop and the Pulitzer Prize winning One of Ours."

Online, 87 min. (2005). From NC LIVE: "More than 40 years after his death, Hemingway is one of the most widely read and written about American authors. It is the art of Hemingway's story telling that forms the heart of this film, the point of departure from which Hemingway's work is uniquely explored."

Online, 57 min. (2008). A documentary about Zora Neale Hurston's life as told by those who knew her.

Online, 120 min. (2005). From NC LIVE: "Eugene O'Neill tells the haunting story of the life and work of America's greatest and only Nobel Prize-winning playwright -- set within the context of the harrowing family dramas and personal upheavals that shaped him, and that he in turn struggled all his life to give form to in his art." American Experience series.

Ken Burns brings his legendary eye to the life of Mark Twain, "told primarily through the words of Twain himself." (Two-part series.)

Online, 104 min. (2008). This film is a biography of Walt Whitman in the American Experience series.