Art History Movies
- 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...
- 2009
The Wedding at Cana
The Wedding at Cana102009HD
A short film by Peter Greenaway. It depicts the painting The Wedding Feast at Cana by Paolo Veronese, through mixed media and shows different...
- 2024
Living Art
Living Art02024HD
The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the market being flooded with plastic in the...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2014
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
The Mystery of Mona Lisa62014HD
- 2019
Battlefield Gender
Battlefield Gender72019HD
Both a visit to a very peculiar exhibition at the Bundeswehr Military History Museum in Dresden, Germany, as well as an unprejudiced look at the...
- 2009
Picturing the Presidents
Picturing the Presidents72009HD
We go behind the scenes and into the minds of artists as they capture, commemorate, and, at times, condemn our presidents.
- 2020
Beethoven Reloaded
Beethoven Reloaded82020HD
- 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).
- 2022
Oskar Kokoschka : Portraits européens
Oskar Kokoschka : Portraits européens92022HD
- 2007
Achieving the Unachievable
Achieving the Unachievable52007HD
M.C. Escher is among the most intriguing of artists. In 1956 he challenged the laws of perspective with his graphic Print Gallery and his uncompleted...
- 2024
Frans Hals - Maler des Lachens
Frans Hals - Maler des Lachens82024HD
- 2021
Raphael: The Young Prodigy
Raphael: The Young Prodigy7.52021HD
Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the artist from Urbino, beginning with his extraordinary early portraits of women - the Mother, the...
- 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...
- 2022
Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer
Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer82022HD
- 2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art82022HD
There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...
- 2010
Ugly Beauty
Ugly Beauty02010HD
Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in modern art, despite several recent books claiming the...
- 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.
- 2016
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch52016HD
Exhibition on Screen's latest release celebrates the life and masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch brought together from around the world to his hometown...