In Search of Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman rises from a hardscrabble boyhood in Long Island and Brooklyn to write "Leaves of Grass" in 1855 that revolutionizes poetry. This film brings to life many of Whitman's most famous poems.

The poet moves to Washington to care for injured Civil War 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.