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- Film explores John Singer Sargent's mastery in portraying subjects' identities through clothing in 50 paintings and wardrobes, comparing public identity portrayal then and now, examining his influence on art, culture, and fashion.
- The Rijksmuseum and Mauritshuis host an exhibition bringing together Vermeer masterpieces. The museum director and curators give a private tour, sharing new research into Vermeer's artistic process, and motivations for his compositions.
- Delving deeper than any film has done before, engaging with world-renowned Kahlo experts, exploring how great an artist she was, discover the real Frida Kahlo.
- Experts examine the qualities that make Gustav Klimt's painting 'The Kiss' the iconic and enduring work it is.
- Hopper's work is the most recognizable art in America. Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by his art - but who was he, and how did a struggling illustrator create such a bounty of notable work?
- Exploring the radical change in social and religious attitudes towards sex, this award-winning documentary takes a look throughout history and traces the shift in social attitudes and practices. Terry traces an unexpected route of how sex got from strict social repression to the full-frontal glossies of today.
- Monet is perhaps the most famous painter of gardens, but there were many artists who were inspired by cultivated nature including Van Gogh, Bonnard, Pissarro and Matisse.
- Impressionism was one of the most revolutionary movements of the XIX century. Monet, Renoir, Cezanne, Degas and Pissarro among other shook the foundations of artistic practice, and here we learn who they really were.
- Mary Cassatt's artworks portray intellectual, feminine women. Her contradictory career, overlooked art contrast representations of women in her era. Explores her prints, pastels, paintings depicting real women through objective portrayals.
- The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- This is the story of Monet as expressed through his personal letters as he painted.
- The Girl with a Pearl Earring' by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most enduring paintings in the history of art. This beautifully filmed documentary goes in pursuit of answers to the unresolved riddles surrounding this extraordinary piece.
- A new "Exhibition on Screen" exploration of the French impressionist artist Edgar Degas.
- The first truly comprehensive feature length cinema documentary ever made about Beethoven. With over 60 live performances.
- An American fashion photographer and his entourage start behaving in a completely different way than usual when they visit an island paradise, where they experience passion and ancient rituals.
- Art historians discuss Pablo Picasso's early years as an artist and his early works.
- A major 25 part television series in which art historian Tim Marlow takes a fresh look at the most important artworks of some of the greatest artists in history. Shot on location in over 50 galleries, museums, churches and palaces throughout Europe and the United States, this series is a comprehensive survey of the history of Western art. Both intelligent and informative, the series aims to provide an uncomplicated and accessible analysis of the works and artists featured including Giotto, Michelangelo and Raphael.
- The life and work of Michelangelo, one of the most important artists of the Italian High Renaissance, are brought to life in this documentary through an exhibition in the National Gallery that also explore his relationship with da Vinci.
- Leonardo da Vinci's peerless paintings and drawings are the focus of Leonardo: The Works, as EXHIBITION ON SCREEN presents every single attributed painting, in Ultra HD quality, never seen before on the big screen.
- The National Gallery of London is one of the world's greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an endless source of stories. But whose stories are told? Which art has the most impact and on whom? The power of great art lies in its ability to communicate with anyone, no matter their art historical knowledge, their background, their beliefs. This film gives voice to those who work at the gallery - from cleaner to curator, security guard to director - who identify the one artwork that means the most to them and why. An assortment of people from all walks of life who have a strong connection to the gallery make surprising choices of both well-known and lesser-known artworks. Finally, some well-known celebrities explain what they head for when they visit the gallery. These stories are used as a lens through which to explore the 200-year history of the National Gallery and what the future may hold for this spectacular space.
- In this eagerly-awaited documentary, Phil Grabsky's biographical account of Haydn's life is a visual and aural extravaganza, including breath-taking performances by some of the world's most celebrated musicians.
- This film follows the exhibition 'Jheronimus Bosch - Visions of Genius' which brought the majority of Bosch's works together for the first time in his hometown of Den Bosch, attracting almost half a million fans from all over the world.
- Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet, the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period (the garden movement, 1887-1920) reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It's a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation.
- The film explores the creative process of staging the childhood classic 'Swallows and Amazons' while discovering the challenges that face Britain's oldest continuously running theatre at a time of both regeneration and threatened resources.
- Delving deep into the fascinating and sometimes deeply troubled world of Vincent van Gogh who, perhaps more than any other artist, has long captured the imagination of storytellers.
- Art historian Tim Marlow hosts a documentary series about the life and art of greatest artists from history. Some episodes were originally part of the theatrical art documentary series called Exhibition on Screen.
- A documentary about the influence of Japanese art on Van Gogh's work.
- This Exhibition On Screen explores the Easter story as depicted in art, from the time of the early Christians to the present day.
- Have you ever wondered what inspired the first flame thrower, or when the first brain surgery was performed? Have you ever wondered who invented the kiss, or how humans changed once cities were invented? Ancient Inventions dives deeply into these thought provoking subjects - and some of the answers aren't what you'd expect!
- A cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery's exhibition Goya: The Portraits.
- Award-winning filmmakers, Phil Grabsky and Shoaib Sharifi, present a real-life epic of boyhood and manhood, filmed across twenty years in one of the most embattled corners of the globe.
- In 2001, the Taliban government of Afghanistan destroyed the Buddhas of Bamiyan, the world's tallest stone sculptures. By the summer of 2002, after the fall of the Taliban, more than 250 Afghans, most of them Hazara refugees, were living in caves beside the rubble. This film, organized chronologically over four seasons, follows a refugee family living there, including Mir, a smiling lad of eight. The landscape is stark, the winter is harsh, the refugees' stories are harrowing, Mir's school is crowded and ill equipped, helicopters move across the sky, and the roads carry mostly military vehicles, yet Mir's family hopes for a house and a bright future.
- One cannot appreciate 20th-century art without understanding the significance and genius of Paul Cézanne.
- An journey into the life and art of Venice's famous view-painter, no artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto.
- Bringing to life the everyday details of the ancients Egyptians - bizarre, hilarious or shocking - this wonderfully entertaining and factually revealing film is packed full of surprises. With Jones throwing informed yet sometimes crazed light on the subject, a previously hidden world of the ancient Egyptians is wonderfully brought to life.
- This film takes viewers on an intimate behind-the-scenes tour of a landmark exhibition, giving them a chance to see these paintings as never before, while also giving a detailed biography of one of history's greatest artists.
- Who better to scrutinize and investigate the quirkier achievements of the impressive and expansive Roman Empire than co-creator of the brilliantly accomplished question; 'What have the Romans ever done for us'? Terry Jones is in search of an answer. Unearthing the secrets of the Roman world in his own idiosyncratic and bizarre way, he reveals how ordinary people really lived in ancient Rome.
- Many know Munch as the man who painted The Scream, but his complete works are remarkable and secure his place as one of the world's great artists. Munch 150 goes behind the scenes to show some of the process of putting the exhibition together - as well as touring Norway to provide an in-depth biography of a man who lived from the mid-19th century right through to the German occupation of Norway in the Second World War.
- Traveling through Europe and to Jerusalem, host Tim Marlow examines how the Christian story of Easter has been represented artistically, from the early days of Christianity through contemporary times, in this illuminating documentary.
- This stunning film, based on the remarkable Renoir collection at Philadelphia's Barnes Foundation, explores the artist's later work, which still provoke extreme reactions - some people are repulsed by them and others seduced.
- In Luanda, one of the world's poorest and most dangerous places, three students from Angola's only music school work towards their end-of-year concert. The Music School is Angola's first and only school of its kind. It houses some 80 students, most of them desperately poor. Many face disapproval and outright rejection from their families who can't see a future in music. This film asks if, despite the ravages of 27 years of civil war, musical passion can overcome terrible hardships.
- Tracks cheeky, enthusiastic Mir from a childish eight to a fully grown eighteen-year-old in Afghanistan.
- A new "Exhibition on Screen" exploration of Vermeer's artwork.
- A young girl finds a little blue mushroom at her door. Nothing is as it seems in this story of dreams, spirits, and weird folklore. A short film written and directed by Stefano Tambellini. Starring Aiko Horiuchi, Glen Mexted, and Leah Gallo.
- A documentary about Nero's house.
- Featurette to promote the film She (1965).