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.

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - Jo...
In 1968 Roger Smith ate a peach during a break from work. When he was finished he took out a pocketk...
A documentary about German tourists on vacation in Italy and various activities at their Italian vac...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...

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

Giuseppina Pasqualino di Marineo, better known as Pippa Bacca, was a 34 years old Italian artist. S...

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations ‘hacked’ the tools...

This film was made out of the capture of a live animation performance presented in Rome in January 2...

William Friedkin attends an exorcism with Father Gabriele Amorth, as he treats an Italian woman name...

A portrait of Nam June Paik produced as a 'video catalog' for the exhibition 'The Electronic Super H...

Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, ...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

94-year old Esther, a pensioner with bad sight, is in search of her artist daugther’s public decorat...

An experimental shortfilm in line with "Lux Æterna", showcasing the footage from Cecil B. DeMille's ...
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State...

A documentary about surrealist artist Salvador Dali, narrated by Orson Welles.