Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, peeling back pop's frothy, ironic surface to reveal an art style full of subversive wit and radical ideas. In charting its story, Alastair brings a fresh eye to the work of pop art superstars Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein and tracks down pop's pioneers, from American artists like James Rosenquist, Claes Oldenburg and Ed Ruscha to British godfathers Peter Blake and Allen Jones. Alastair also explores how pop's fascination with celebrity, advertising and the mass media was part of a global art movement, and he travels to China to discover how a new generation of artists are reinventing pop art's satirical, political edge for the 21st century.
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of smash hit I'm Not in Love, the original members of 10cc - ...
Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent t...
Emmy award-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan joins the frontline of the race wars in America, sitting do...
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A documentary investigation of the world of French agriculture today through various testimonials. A...
Shot entirely on smartphones, this documentary charts the Melvins' record-breaking tour where the ba...
Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences...
The Ahnenerbe (The adopted heritage). A pseudo-scientific organization which, under Heinrich Himmler...
In 2002, documentarian made his first "Art Safari" style film about the German photographer Andreas ...
First broadcast in 1987 on the UK's Channel 4, Bombin' is a documentary about Afrika Bambaataa's Zul...
Derren Brown investigates the power of social compliance by persuading an unwitting member of the pu...
A look at the work of Japanese woodblock printing artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849).
In this horrifyingly modern fairytale lurks an online Boogeyman and two 12-year-old girls who would ...
In-depth look at the life of John McCain, from his time as a POW in Vietnam to his three decades of ...
A one hour documentary on the aftermath of the 2013 Alberta Floods in the town of High River.
In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebod...
The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...
THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look a...