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.

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

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

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.

“This is a film about the end of a friendship. It wasn’t meant to be. Fifteen years ago, they painte...

"Meat Joy is an erotic rite — excessive, indulgent, a celebration of flesh as material: raw fish, ch...

These are the first images shot in the ALN maquis, camera in hand, at the end of 1956 and in 1957. T...

An incredible historic document showcasing the roots of Old School Hip Hop movement with all its dis...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...

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...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment' about the ...

Travelling around the country, Art City: Simplicity takes viewers on a revealing trip into the studi...

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...

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

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...