What happened to painter Beatriz González, who made us laugh with the irony of her works, to get to the point of making a self-portrait that shows her crying naked? The path of the artist is intimately linked with the history of Colombia during the past fifty years.

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

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

A British artist misses his parents' wedding anniversary for a last-minute sketching commission in C...

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

From Brooklyn to the Bronx, Soho to Greenwich, Union Square to Wall Street... Join us and the friend...

Stuart Cooper's short about the work of Spanish artist Juan Genovés is an inspired introduction to t...

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor...
The video revolution of the 1970s offered unprecedented access to the moving image for artists and p...

A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of ...

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

Jim Carrey exhibits his talent as a painter and reflects on the value and power of art.

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.