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.
Janina Ramirez explores the BBC archives to create a TV history of Leonardo Da Vinci, discovering wh...
Elliott Erwitt has spent his entire adult life taking photographs, of presidents, popes and movie st...
The point of departure for this film is the 1981 composition De Tijd by Dutch composer Louis Andries...
Documentary that reconstructs the professional life of the dancer through the thread of his own voic...
In the spring of 1974, a camera team from Studio H&S succeeded against the explicit orders of the Ju...
THE STORY WON’T DIE, from Award-winning filmmaker David Henry Gerson, is an inspiring, timely look a...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...
Documentary - Eighteen years in the making, two-headed cow started off as a black and white film tha...
Filmmaker S.R. Bindler profiles Texas contestants trying to win a truck by keeping one hand on it lo...
The rut of Dalmatian hinterland changes with the arrival of returning guest workers, and things they...
Hop on a Harley for this tour of the nation's highways and byways with other motorcycle enthusiasts ...
The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...