Art History Movies

  • 2020
    Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline

    Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline

    Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline

    7.62020HD

    A documentary celebrating Lee Miller, a model-turned-photographer-turned-war reporter who defied anyone who tried to pin her down, put her on a...

    Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline
  • 2012
    Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

    Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

    Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas

    72012HD

    The many references in contemporary film to Edward Hopper's works, as well as the widespread reproduction of some of his paintings have made his...

    Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
  • 2025
    Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression

    Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression

    Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression

    92025HD

    This film follows the life of Jacob Kainen, a prolific but often overlooked artist of 20th Century America. From his immigrant upbringing to his...

    Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression
  • 2022
    Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer

    Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer

    Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer

    82022HD

    Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer
  • 2014
    Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

    Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

    Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World

    6.7672014HD

    An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940-2014), tormented father of creatures as fearsome...

    Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
  • 2018
    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History

    5.52018HD

    Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian...

    Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
  • 2021
    The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection

    The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection

    The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection

    5.32021HD

    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...

    The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection
  • 2019
    The Painting

    The Painting

    The Painting

    7.52019HD

    For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last brushstroke to the canvas, the enigma of...

    The Painting
  • 2017
    Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

    Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

    Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence

    7.12017HD

    In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.

    Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
  • 2020
    Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes

    7.52020HD

    A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.

    Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes
  • 2024
    Living Art

    Living Art

    Living Art

    02024HD

    The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the market being flooded with plastic in the...

    Living Art
  • 2016
    Botticelli – Inferno

    Botticelli – Inferno

    Botticelli – Inferno

    72016HD

    The Renaissance master Botticelli spent over a decade painting and drawing hell as the poet Dante described it. The film takes us on a journey...

    Botticelli – Inferno
  • 2019
    Battlefield Gender

    Battlefield Gender

    Battlefield Gender

    72019HD

    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...

    Battlefield Gender
  • 2021
    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art

    7.22021HD

    Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...

    The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
  • 2022
    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art

    7.32022HD

    There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...

    Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
  • 2012
    The Secret Mona Lisa

    The Secret Mona Lisa

    The Secret Mona Lisa

    02012HD

    The Mona Lisa by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci is the most famous painting in the world. What is the secret behind the "real" Mona...

    The Secret Mona Lisa
  • 2020
    James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

    James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

    James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre

    02020HD

    A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist

    James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre
  • 2023
    Paris, le mystère du palais disparu

    Paris, le mystère du palais disparu

    Paris, le mystère du palais disparu

    7.32023HD

    Paris, le mystère du palais disparu
  • 2014
    Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde

    Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde

    Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde

    02014HD

    Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that...

    Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde
  • 2016
    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

    7.52016HD

    Claude Monet was an avid horticulturist and arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, but he was not alone. Great artists...

    Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse