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.

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

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

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

Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...

Documentary that exposes the secret world of these unknown tax havens. There is a global network of ...

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

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

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

In this sprawling 33-part epic, Dianetics therapy and the effects it has on human minds are explored...

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

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

Many artists use the pain, exhilaration and resolution of private desires to express themselves. Art...

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

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

History is Ours narrates the struggle of the workers of the Refrescos Pascual soft-drink company aga...