In his 2017 documentary film Henry David Thoreau: Surveyor of the Soul, Huey Coleman tells the story of Thoreau in his time and of the impact Thoreau’s writings and lifestyle have in our time. The film will be broadcast on Maine Public Television again this week and is also available to stream on demand.

A 15-minute silent film about Ralph Waldo Emerson from the 1920s. Selections from his life and writings are illustrated with black-and-white footage from around the town of Concord, Massachusetts, including the Old Manse, the Emerson House, Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, and the Old North Bridge.

In his new documentary film Ralph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love, Michael Maglaras celebrates the 220th anniversary of Emerson’s birth by “telling the story of the father of American thought and literature and…his importance in contemporary life.”