Year 1763, the Seven Years' War is about to end. August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, has died, leaving empty the royal treasury and an extraordinary collection of paintings, sculptures, jewelry and goldsmith masterpieces, which he considered a symbol of his greatness, and that of Dresden, one of the European capitals of Baroque art.

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

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

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

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French docto...

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the...

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of Ki...

For over 30 years a man termed as a mad man, comes to light as his passionate work of collecting art...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

A film that looks at the genius of JMW Turner in a new light. There is more to Turner than his subli...
The title is a reference to the Book of Isaiah 42:6, “I, the LORD, have called thee in righteousness...

Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de La...

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subje...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...

Painter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is arrest...

Teenage outsiders take refuge into an underground world of strange subcultures. A father is training...