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.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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...

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

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

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

Vincent Castiglia paints in human blood.

About the art explosion in Amsterdam during the 1980's when artists of all sorts found spaces and pl...

Painter Françoise Gilot shared Pablo Picasso's life from 1943 to 1953. This union nourished their re...

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

Artist David Choe has led a life of high risk, from hedonistic excesses to being imprisoned at a max...
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.

Pictura is a documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hol...

Moscow, Russia, December 2016. Edward Snowden, Larry Lessig and Birgitta Jónsdóttir meet for the fir...