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.

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

A horse and cart carrying two nuns is stopped by two men with fixed bayonets.

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...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

Propagandistic documentary aiming to demonstrate how vigorous and prosperous the provinces of Tacna ...

With loans from across the world, this major retrospective will bring together Vermeer’s most famous...

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

Presents life in 18th century Spain as the painter Francisco de Goya showed it to us.

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

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

‘Under the Weight of a Waking Dream’ is Zefier's debut swan song to the ending year. Comprised of po...

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

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

See how alt-right icon Steve Bannon’s years as a documentary filmmaker catapulted him to Breitbart N...