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.
After World War II a group of young writers, outsiders and friends who were disillusioned by the pur...
Tattooing — "the world's oldest skin game" — is the subject of this iconic documentary. Writer/direc...
For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daught...
Behind the gas masks of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, the often very young activists are just as d...
The celebrated British artist discusses his life and work with Melvyn Bragg in his Normandy studio, ...
Using over 50 years of archive footage, this film looks back at the life and career of David Hockney...
Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable lif...
Activist-pranksters Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pull the rug out from under mega-corporations, g...
An historical documentary that rereads the recent death of Jorge Videla, bloodthirsty dictator of Ar...
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...
The Sophisticated Misfit is a long-awaited must-have for fans of the artist Shag and Tiki culture al...
Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated ...
Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documenta...
The tender and tragic love story of French painter Pierre Bonnard and his wife and lifelong model Ma...
Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor...
A journey into the hearts, minds and eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Emily Carr and Frida Kahlo - three of...
Anya was an ordinary Moscow teenager who found a chat group of her choice online. They talked about ...