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.

This educational film illustrates various textures as students create different kinds of textured ar...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your pass...

Review the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb by Howard Carter in 1922 with archival photographs and re...

The illustrator and author paints scenes from a 70-year-long career, including his work with Roald D...
Whatever Comes Next is a documentary about the curious and dynamic life of Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger...

Penthesilea, the first of six films made by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen, traverses thousands of ye...

A documentary about World War II, also known as the "Holy War" while Romania was an ally to Nazi Ger...

This documentary movie is about the battle of San Pietro, a small village in Italy. Over 1,100 US so...

Bouncing between Europe and the United States as often as she would between lovers, Peggy Guggenheim...

The titular troublemakers are the New York–based Land (aka Earth) artists of the 1960s and 70s, who ...

One of North America’s most amazing collections of art can be found in the crumbling ruins of Detroi...

The film charts the origins of the Umbrella Movement through the eyes of the activists and ordinary ...

A documentary on New York City’s biggest public art project ever, an installation called “The Gates”...

An inspirational insight into the spectacular art at the center of this annual celebration, BURNING ...
After the capture of Shanghai, Japanese soldiers make a trip to Suzhou.

The story of The Satanic Temple, a controversial movement that combines religion and activism with t...