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.

Deeply thoughtful and illuminating, DRAWING A LIFE reveals the details of artist Geoff McFetridge’s ...

Maurizio is a young university student living in Zürich, with a passion for diseases. Unlike many ot...
Three stand-up comedians seek fame and fortune in the hottest comedy scene in the world: San Francis...

A film about the noted American linguist/political dissident and his warning about corporate media's...

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

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard pu...

A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers o...
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...

The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protestor...

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the surreal art movement, comedian Jim Moir (a.k....

Alastair Sooke champions pop art as one of the most important art forms of the twentieth century, pe...

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how d...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...