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.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

A comic, biting and revelatory documentary following a small group of prankster activists as they ga...

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

One of the best-known Chinese figurative painters, Liu Xiaodong goes back to his hometown of Jinchen...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

L, a student in India witness to the government's violent response to university protests, writes le...

A feature-length documentary celebrating the life and work of Trinity Bay artist and storyteller Cli...

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of ...

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

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

Artist Grayson Perry has been working behind the scenes at the British Museum to stage his most ambi...