Art History Movies
- 2014
The Mystery of Mona Lisa
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The Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, is a work by Leonardo Da Vinci and one of the most famous paintings in the world. It is currently on...
- 1983
The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch
The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch7.51983HD
Nicholas Baum goes on a journey to Den Bosch, Hieronymus Bosch's town, and gives his explanation about what he thinks the painter's works originally...
- 2020
The Untold Story of the Vatican
The Untold Story of the Vatican7.3182020HD
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...
- 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...
- 2016
Philippe-Alain Michaud, le réel traversé par la fiction
Philippe-Alain Michaud, le réel traversé par la fiction02016HD
To be in Venice and see the architecture of New York, to perceive in a painting by Tintoretto the birth of animated images, to look at the burlesque...
- 2018
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity
M. C. Escher: Journey to Infinity6.92018HD
A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken from his diary, his correspondence and the texts...
- 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...
- 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...
- 2018
Egon Schiele: Between Love and Hate
Egon Schiele: Between Love and Hate4.52018HD
An account of the short life and the astonishing and provocative work of the Austrian painter Egon Schiele (1890-1918), seen through the peculiar...
- 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...
- 2016
The Original Richard McMahan
The Original Richard McMahan02016HD
The multi-talented outsider artist Richard McMahan is on a quest to painstakingly re-create thousands of famous and not-so-famous paintings and...
- 2019
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace72019HD
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's...
- 2024
Phantasia
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X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is...
- 1997
Palin on Redpath
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Michael Palin travels to France in search of the Mediterranean view on his wall, captured by his favourite artist, Scottish painter Anne Redpath. He...
- 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...
- 2022
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel7.52022HD
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière (1931-2021) traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
- 2020
Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes
Frank Lloyd Wright: Phoenix From the Ashes7.72020HD
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed between glory, scandal and tragedy.
- 2019
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason
Francisco de Goya: The Dream of Reason7.22019HD
French writer Jean-Claude Carrière traces the life and work of Spanish painter Francisco de Goya (1746-1828).
- 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...
- 2016
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation
Black Is the Color: African-American Artists and Segregation02016HD
Black Is the Color highlights key moments in the history of Black visual art, from Edmonds Lewis’s 1867 sculpture Forever Free, to the work of...