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.
A chronicle of the Russian Revolution of 1917, from the bourgeois democratic February Revolution to ...
In 2014 a large painting representing Judith Beheading Holofernes was discovered in an attic in Toul...
This short film in support of the war effort focuses on the training and missions of Army Air Corps ...
Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/direc...
A documentary that explores what it means to be an artist and why it's important to pursue your pass...
Documentary tells the story of the Chilean football club Colo-Colo, exploring its profound impact on...
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...
London, England, 2008. Some of the most distinguished experts on the work of Italian artist Leonardo...
For his five Cremaster films Matthew Barney's created a multitude of sculptural forms and structures...
Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the...
Propaganda documentary about the fall of Nanking. Considered for a long time as a lost film, it was ...
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...
Francis Bacon: Fragments of a Portrait explores the recurring themes in Bacon’s work, his influences...