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.

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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

A documentary about the Estonian artist Kaarel Kurismaa shows the viewer an insight into the world o...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant Edie Sedgwick meets artist Andy Warhol. She joins Warhol's famous...

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

Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who ...

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

From the remote Australian desert to the opulence of Buckingham Palace - Namatjira Project is the ic...

An enormous shroud of white cement covers a hillside in the remote of western Sicily. It is both lan...
This MGM Passing Parade series short takes a look at changing definitions of art in the United State...

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

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Presenter and former England football captain Gary Lineker follows in the footsteps of his grandfath...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...