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.

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

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

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

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

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

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

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

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...

Actor Mark Bonnar is on a mission to understand more about the Scottish new towns in which he grew u...
The story of Istituto Luce and it's newsreels, full of visual records of the social and political hi...

This fascinating exploration of the creative process follows one of Australia's leading contemporary...

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...

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...

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

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

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. S...

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