Sean Penn is almost a living legend. His filmography paints a picture of an 'other America': the lower class, the oppressed and the outsiders. Whether as an actor or director, he turns all the great myths upside down.

An exploration of the work of controversial pop artist Allen Jones, whose erotic sculptures have ang...
This documentary brings alive a remarkable artist’s passionate journey through a turbulent century. ...

Portrait of the Italian sculptor Donatello (1386-1466), a precursor of the High Renaissance who cons...

By decoding ancient hieroglyphic texts, Jean-François Champollion gave voice to an enigmatic civiliz...

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement follo...

This feature documentary is a profile of Canadian press tycoon Roy Thomson, whose single-minded atte...

Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the...

A visual journey into the life and legacy of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, Brett White...

The artist Johanna Faust is about to leave her children to finally devote herself to her art again. ...

A woman with a deep love of the land, Yolande Simard Perrault sees her life as having been shaped by...

The documentary accompanies Irish-born artist Sean Scully as he works on his piece “Grey Wolf”.

A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep tr...

The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknow...

An Austrian director followed five successful African music and dance artists with his camera and fo...

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

This documentary about legendary French chanteuse Edith Piaf begins at her birth (which was helped a...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

Portrait of photographer Bengt Åke Kimbré where he narrates his own life story accompanied by his ph...