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.

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

Shows how to use and care for crayons and some of the crayon techniques. Explains creative drawing, ...

Andy is a loyalist of the Ka'bah Youth Movement (GPK) which is one of the 'civil militias' under the...

Composed of stills by renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas taken in 1978 and 1979 during the ...

About Swedish artist, painter, sculptor and set designer Sven "X-et" Erixson, presented with Lars Jo...

An artist had a vision for art and expressed it in his paintings, fashion designs, and photographs. ...

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

Cyprien Tokoudagba is from the city of Abomey in the Benin Republic of West Africa, where he paints ...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

A look at how form, color, smell, consistency, the sounds made during eating, manufacturing techniqu...

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

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

A film about the artist Marlene Dumas: - There's no right way to portray or to understand someone. I...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...