Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks. Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China's most famous and politically outspoken contemporary artist. Alan Yentob explores the story of Ai Weiwei's life and art, and reveals how this most courageous and determined of artists continues to fight for artistic freedom of expression while living under the restrictive shadows of authoritarian rule.

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...

In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Ju...

Born in 1873 in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, Enrico Caruso conquered the world with his singing v...

Challenging all notions of genre, Semi Colin is a living, breathing art installation. Part performan...

Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambi...

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jinchen...

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story ...
The first part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "The Song o...
The second part of the documentary about the work of the Czech painter Mikoláš Alš called "Glorious ...

Painter Françoise Gilot shared Pablo Picasso's life from 1943 to 1953. This union nourished their re...

This ninety-minute film takes audiences on an epic journey across nine countries and over 1,400 year...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...

Documentary film about Tony Halme, masculinity and populism. The film follows how Tony Halme created...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Released in 1796 posthumously, The Nun, a novel that Diderot did not dream of publishing during his ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...