In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction. In the years between the seizure of power by the Russian Bolsheviks and Stalinism in the 1930s, the avant-gardists developed a new form of art that ushered in modernism.

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

Filmed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Tate Britain, London, the exhibition reveals Sarge...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Born in 1873 in a poor neighbourhood in Naples, Enrico Caruso conquered the world with his singing v...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

About Stefan Stricker, who calls himself Juwelia and has been running a gallery on Sanderstraße in B...

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...

When two of artist Barbora Kysilkova’s most valuable paintings are stolen from a gallery at Frogner ...

The true story of the relationship between famed author William Allen White and his teenaged daughte...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum ...

A portrait of artist, actress, poet and occultist Marjorie Cameron, it shows images of her paintings...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

After Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism charges, this do...

One public housing flat in Moscow stood out above all others: the home of George Costakis, the forem...

Luis Bunuel, the father of cinematic Surrealism, made his film debut with 'Un Chien Andalou' in 1929...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...
Showing Sergei Parajanov at the end of his life, the film depicts the suffering of a genius against ...