This program investigates the ways various art forms are used to sway minds and to argue political causes. Examples include Napoleon and Hitler; artist such as Daumier, Hogarth and Shann; writers Dickens, Swift and Orwell; and pop artists who mock popular ideals.

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his wor...

Tribute to Leopoldo Méndez, a prominent Mexican artist, considered the most important printmaker in ...

A colorful and provocative survey of anarchism in America, the film attempts to dispel popular misco...

A documentary about militant student political activity at the University of California, Berkeley in...

Documentary celebrating the LGBTQ contribution to the arts in Britain in the 50 years since decrimin...

Poverty, Inc. explores the hidden side of doing good. From disaster relief to TOMs Shoes, from adopt...

This short documentary explores the creative process of Mexican textile artist Victoria Villasana. H...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...

Artists, urban planners and the city of Berlin trying to transform a former GDR ruin into a place fo...
Filmed at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Cut Piece documents one of Yoko Ono’s most powerful conceptual p...

Directed by Margot Benacerraf, Reverón is a poetic and visually striking documentary that delves int...

The pride of Napoleon's victories, the Arc de Triomphe, whose first stone was laid in 1806 at the to...

They came to Donbass from different countries in search of truth. And they stayed on for the sake of...

In Alex Jones' 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the st...

POLICE STATE 4 chronicles the sickening depths to which our republic has fallen. Veteran documentary...
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francis...

The Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement, paved the way for Hong Kong’s curr...

"Subversivas" is a documentary that reveals the brazilian military dictatorship from the perspective...

How did the Impressionists view the world? What relationship did they have with technique, with colo...