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.

A collection of television celebrities pitch United States Savings bonds.
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

What does modern art mean for ordinary visitors to an exhibition?

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

A Nazi propaganda film about the lead up to World War II and Germany's success on the Western Front....

Stonecutters emigrated from northern Italy to Barre, Vermont, the "Granite Capital of the World." Fo...

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-197...

From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...

A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood acto...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

For both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, Captain James Cook is a figure of great historic...

Cecil Taylor was the grand master of free jazz piano. "All the Notes" captures in breezy fashion the...
A documentary film about Comanche activist LaDonna Harris, who led an extensive life of Native polit...

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...