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.

Filmed on location in Montana and Washington State, this 1976 biography of poet and teacher Richard ...

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

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

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...

With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a de...

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...

Stonecutters emigrated from northern Italy to Barre, Vermont, the "Granite Capital of the World." Fo...

A visual artist and a musician create a series of works in which paintings and musical scores form c...

A documentary about the life and works of the artist M. C. Escher. Maurits Cornelis Escher (1898-197...

A documentary film directed by seven famous directors, and narrated by several famous Hollywood acto...

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

From the legendary times of Romulus and Remus to the present day, the compelling story of the eterna...

"Mr and Mrs Art" - Getting attention is like being struck by the light of the sun, says artist Karin...

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN open its fifth season with Canaletto & the Art of Venice, an immersive journey ...

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