Narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi - star of the landmark television series "I, Claudius" - this documentary explores art and culture around the Bay of Naples before Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79. The bay was then the most fashionable destination for vacationing Romans. Julius Caesar, emperors, and senators were among those who owned sumptuous villas along its shores. Artists flocked to the region to create frescoes, sculpture, and luxurious objects in gold, silver, and glass for villa owners as well as residents of Pompeii and other towns in the shadow of Vesuvius. The film concludes with the story of the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum from the 18th century onward.

This documentary follows four female First Nations artists—Doreen Jensen, Rena Point Bolton, Jane As...

An exciting and unsettling cinematic journey through the life, work and torments of Caravaggio.

Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout ...

This surreal abstract film falls into three sections, or movements, the first taking place on the gr...

Colleagues, professional journalists and users comment on the masterpiece of the first lady of Czech...

Cartoneras is a documentary that grapples with Latin America’s urban realities, and the cardboard pu...

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

How do artists view their own work? How does actor Esko Salminen immerse himself in his roles, how d...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

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

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...

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

Hungary was the site of serial murders on ethnic basis. Over the course of one year, the murderers k...
Follows the young people of Selma, Alabama's RATCo (Random Acts of Theatre Company) as they journey ...

Departing from peripheral details of some paintings of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, a female narrato...

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

A documentary that uncovers the careers of a population of entertainers never heard from before: Bla...

Widely considered Britain’s most popular artist, David Hockney is a global sensation with exhibition...