Art History Movies
- 2018
Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History
Looking for Modern Art: Rethinking Art History5.52018HD
Many twentieth century European artists, such as Paul Gauguin or Pablo Picasso, were influenced by art brought to Europe from African and Asian...
- 2020
Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora
Leonardo da Vinci and the Bust of Flora7.22020HD
Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929), director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the...
- 2017
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence
Francis Bacon: A Brush with Violence7.12017HD
In this unique, compelling film, those who knew him speak freely, some for the first time, to reveal the many mysteries of Francis Bacon.
- 2022
The Cultural History of Museums
The Cultural History of Museums42022HD
From the cabinets of curiosities created in Italy during the 16th century to the prestigious cultural institutions of today, a history of museums...
- 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
An Unsatisfying Metaphor
An Unsatisfying Metaphor82020HD
Documentary about the history of 20th century globalization through the lens of the World Trade Organization's changing art collection; from works of...
- 2023
Paris, le mystère du palais disparu
Paris, le mystère du palais disparu7.32023HD
- 2016
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse7.52016HD
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...
- 2022
The Art of Grieving
The Art of Grieving02022HD
After the untimely death of his 35-year old brother, an artist explores the questions that surfaced from grief by painting 365 paintings and to spur...
- 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...
- 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.
- 2024
Vera Ars Orbis?
Vera Ars Orbis?02024HD
What is the true meaning of the art?
- 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...
- 1976
Michelangelo
Michelangelo01976HD
Animated short film of Michelangelo set to Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - I. Allegro con brio.
- 1970
They Are Here
They Are Here01970HD
Dangling from a high window, a young non-binary person is on the cusp of life and death. Flashes of film, literature, art (paintings) and cultural...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2021
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art
The Cinematograph: Birth of an Art7.22021HD
Throughout the 19th century, imaginative and visionary artists and inventors brought about the advent of a new look, absolutely modern and truly...
- 2025
Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression
Jacob Kainen: The Last Expression92025HD
This film follows the life of Jacob Kainen, a prolific but often overlooked artist of 20th Century America. From his immigrant upbringing to his...
- 2016
Botticelli – Inferno
Botticelli – Inferno72016HD
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...