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.

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

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

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

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

Vincent Castiglia paints in human blood.

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...

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

This ninety-minute film takes audiences on an epic journey across nine countries and over 1,400 year...

Buenos Aires is a complex, chaotic city. It has European style and a Latin American heart. It has os...

'Pedro', Liora Spilk's debut feature, paints a humorous and emotional portrait of Pedro Friedeberg, ...

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

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

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

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

History is Ours narrates the struggle of the workers of the Refrescos Pascual soft-drink company aga...

A group of artists settle in a swamp on the banks of the Indre River. Meanwhile, a voice describes a...