PBS - In Search of Walt Whitman (2020)

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write the masterpiece Leaves of Grass in 1855 that revolutionizes literature. Many of his most famous poems are profiled. During the Civil War he moves to Washington to care for injured soldiers but is disillusioned by the Gilded Age after the war. He recovers from a debilitating stroke to live out his days in Camden NJ, where he continues to write poetry.

– Chapters –
• In Search of Walt Whitman, Part One: The Early Years (1819-1860)
• In Search of Walt Whitman, Part Two: The Civil War and Beyond (1861-1892)