Art History Movies
- 2014
The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special
The Lost Portrait of Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Culture Show Special02014HD
In 2009, art detective Dr Bendor Grosvenor caused a national scandal by proving that the Scottish National Portrait Gallery's iconic portrait of...
- 2020
Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora
Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora6.52020HD
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the...
- 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes
Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes7.52020HD
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
- 2021
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood
Goering's Catalogue: A Collection of Art and Blood7.32021HD
For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of...
- 2023
Seven Images of Disappearance
Seven Images of Disappearance02023HD
Seven images, each staging their own disappearance.
- 2012
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale
How the Devil Got His Horns: A Diabolical Tale8.52012HD
Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.
- 2022
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel7.42022HD
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
- 2016
Philippe-Alain Michaud, le réel traversé par la fiction
Philippe-Alain Michaud, le réel traversé par la fiction02016HD
To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York, to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the birth of animated images, to look at the burlesque...
- 2023
Paco Roca: dibujando la vida
Paco Roca: dibujando la vida62023HD
A portrait of Spanish comic book author Paco Plaza.
- 2021
The Savior for Sale
The Savior for Sale72021HD
In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), was sold for an unprecedented $450...
- 2018
When the Impressionists Discovered Japan
When the Impressionists Discovered Japan02018HD
- 2010
Sly Artistic City
Sly Artistic City5.52010HD
Some argue that modern graffiti was born in Philadelphia, where the pioneers of wall-writing became citywide celebrities during the late 1960s and...
- 2022
The Rembrandt Century: How Art Became Big Business
The Rembrandt Century: How Art Became Big Business82022HD
In the 17th century, the Netherlands experienced an unprecedented artistic explosion: painters such as Rembrandt, Vermeer and Hals were so prolific...
- 2019
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace6.22019HD
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's...
- 2023
Forains, l'art en fête
Forains, l'art en fête92023HD
- 2022
There Is Nothing to Understand Here
There Is Nothing to Understand Here22022HD
A portrait of Spanish visual artist, writer and art critic Elena Asins (1940-2015), a key figure in geometric abstraction since the sixties.
- 2014
La Victoire de Samothrace, une icône dévoilée
La Victoire de Samothrace, une icône dévoilée02014HD
A documentary about the statue Winged Victory of Samothrace, unquestionably one of the most complete expressions of Hellenistic sculpture
- 1990
Hyperland
Hyperland71990HD
This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s...
- 2020
The Untold Story of the Vatican
The Untold Story of the Vatican7.62020HD
What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom and is today one of the most visited museum in the...
- 2018
Nadar, le premier des photographes
Nadar, le premier des photographes7.52018HD
A documentary about the French photographer Nadar aka Gaspard-Félix Tournachon