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.

Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by Hopper's art – b...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

The ruthless dictator Teodoro Obiang has ruled Equatorial Guinea with an iron hand since 1979. Juan ...

Steal This Film focuses on Pirate Bay founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij and Peter Sunde, pro...

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...

Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, g...

THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD is a screwball true story about two gonzo political activists who, posing ...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet,...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

The unique testimony of the tragic events and crimes of russia through the eyes of Ukrainians, which...

A propaganda documentary on the post war reconstruction of Miensk, capital of Belarus.
A short film with shots of sculptures by Anneke Walvoort. The materiality of film plays an important...

Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such i...

At the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens, New York, Dr. Janos Martin helps treat patients with ...

In 2008 two best friends found themselves trapped in one of the most dangerous places on earth - the...

In a year of uprisings and political unrest, Stonebreakers documents the fights around monuments in ...

A film documenting the soulful art, environments, and voices of self-taught artists on the back road...