A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
For over 45 years, Aardman Animation studios have produced the most fantastic stop motion clay - or plasticine - animation films ever. They introduced the world to their Bristol...
Art and Artists
Decoding da Vinci
This is a fascinating exploration of the life and work of one of the world's most renowned artists, Leonardo da Vinci. Through interviews with leading scholars, art historians, and experts in a variety of fields, the film...
The Animators Who've Spent 40 Years on a Single Film
For the last four decades, Russian animator Yuri Norstein and his wife Francheska Yarbusova have been working on one movie, an animated full-length feature film called "The...
Heart of Batman
"Heart of Batman" is a documentary film that explores the creation and legacy of the critically acclaimed animated series, "Batman: The Animated Series." The documentary features interviews with the creators, voice actors, and...
What Makes Art Valuable?
What makes a piece of art worth tens of millions dollars at auction? A number of things, but not always the things you'd think. BBC's The World's Most Expensive Paintings chronicles the world's ten most valuable paintings, by...
The World's Most Expensive Stolen Paintings
"What is it about art theft we can't resist?" is just one question posed by host and art critic Alastair Sooke in this BBC documentary about some of the most notable high-stakes art...
Style Wars
When director Tony Silver and co-producer Henry Chalfant delivered the broadcast version of their prize-winning film to PBS in 1983, the world received its first full immersion in the phenomenon that had taken over New York...
Why Beauty Matters
Philosopher Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives. In the 20th century, Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness...
Atari: Game Over
How do you go from the fastest growing company in the history of the United States to a debt-infested and dissolved empire in less than a decade? With the release of Pong in the late 1970's, Atari established a firm grasp on...
The Mystery Conman
There's a crook operating in the shadows of the antiquities market. He's known as The Spanish Master, and his clever forgeries have earned him tens of millions of dollars. Who is this elusive figure, and how has he been allowed...
A World of Art: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
What makes a masterpiece? In this visually stunning high definition production, A World of Art, the magnificence of America's premier art museum lights up the screen. One of the architectural glories of New York, the Met stretches 1000 feet...
NOVA: The Film
NOVA: The Film is a documentary film directed by Isaac Niemand and the byproduct of a collaboration between ROJO and BossaNovaFilms. The film brings together several insights from the participants from Nova Contemporary Culture which took place in the...
Art Sleuth
Using unique detective-like approach the author analyzes famous artworks of Van Gogh, Manet, Botticelli, Vigee Le Brun, Rembrandt, Holbein, Bellini, Carpaccio, and Bruegel. Van Gogh painted "The Starry Night" in a sanatorium, a...
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained for 11 weeks. Architect, photographer, curator and blogger, Ai Weiwei is China's most famous and politically outspoken...