Art History Movies
- 2020
Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline
Lee Miller: A Life on the Frontline7.62020HD
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...
- 2012
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas
Edward Hopper and the Blank Canvas72012HD
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...
- 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...
- 2022
Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer
Angkor et Les Mystères de L'Empire Khmer82022HD
- 2014
Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World
Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World6.7672014HD
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...
- 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...
- 2021
The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection
The Treasures of Saxony: How August III Built His Collection5.32021HD
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...
- 2019
The Painting
The Painting7.52019HD
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...
- 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.
- 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
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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2022
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art
Restitution? Africa's Fight for Its Art7.32022HD
There is an interlinking history of violent European colonialism and the cultural legacy of ethnographic collections in institutions. This...
- 2012
The Secret Mona Lisa
The Secret Mona Lisa02012HD
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...
- 2020
James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre
James Tissot: L'étoffe d'un peintre02020HD
A movie about James Tissot (1836-1902), a French painter and portraitist
- 2023
Paris, le mystère du palais disparu
Paris, le mystère du palais disparu7.32023HD
- 2014
Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde
Daniel Richter on Emil Nolde02014HD
Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that...
- 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...