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...

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

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

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...
It was the biggest escape in the history of the Berlin Wall: in one historic night of October 1964, ...

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

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...

Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheime...

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

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

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

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

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

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

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