Video documentaries about all art forms
Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 5 – India to Sri Lanka: Documentary series in which Dan Cruickshank travels the world in search of man’s greatest creations. In Calcutta, he tangles with a ten-armed naked goddess and is moved to passion in the Cave of Heavenly Maidens. Dan’s on a journey of personal enlightenment and finds the […]
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Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 4 – Japan to China: The ancient and the modern clash deliciously in Japan while the Terracotta army and the Great Wall of China boast the brilliance of ancient imperial China – Dan Cruickshank embarks on the fourth leg of his journey round the world to map man’s greatest creations in history.
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Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 3 – Australia to Cambodia: Giant termite mounds, edible juicy ants and erotic cave paintings are the treasures Dan Cruickshank unearths in the outback. In Dan’s view, even the brilliance of Sydney Harbour can’t rival the artefacts of ancient Australia. Dan then moves on to Indonesia and meets the Torajan people
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Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 2 – Mexico to America: Dan Cruickshank’s travels take him from ancient Mayan tombs and the giant warriors of Tula in Mexico to Thomas Jefferson’s home in Virginia and the Statue of Liberty. In episode two of Dan Cruickshank’s global journey to find the top 80 man-made treasures in history, we
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Around the World in 80 Treasures episode 1 – Peru to Brazil: Dan visits the giant Moai, the ruins of Machu Picchu and the giant statue of Rio’s Christ. Cruickshank sets out on television’s most ambitious treasure hunt ever – to reveal the most beautiful and precious things made by man since the dawn of time. Filmed over
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In Art of France, Andrew Graham Dixon takes viewers on a stunning visual journey through French art history in this 3 part documentary. Part 1 – Plus Ca Change Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series with the dramatic story of French art, a story of the most powerful kings ever to rule in Europe with their glittering
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Age of the Image episode 3: James Fox tells the story of how, in the second half of the 20th century, artists, advertisers and film-makers used the power of images to sell us dreams. From the influence of Kodak on our family photos to psychologists persuading us what to buy, he explores how images seduced us with fantasies of a
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Age of the Image episode 2: James Fox explores how mass communication and new technology helped 20th-century image-makers transform society, as films, photographs, TV, art and advertising all became weapons in the ideological battles of the age. James tells the story of Marlene Dietrich and Leni Riefenstahl, who each used cinema to pursue very different visions of power
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Age of the Image episode 1: Documentary series in which art historian James Fox explores how the power of images has transformed the modern world. James starts at the beginning of the 20th century, when an explosion of scientific and technological advances created radical new ways of looking at the world. From the impact of aerial photography on
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A Very British Renaissance episode 3: In the final episode, he explores how the tension between two cultures – one courtly, classical and European, the other home-grown, innovative and vital – helped bring the country to civil war. Art historian Dr James Fox continues his exploration of a Renaissance that he believes was as rich and as significant
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A Very British Renaissance episode 2: In this episode, he explores the Elizabethans’ love of secrecy, codes and complexity, and the cultural revolution sparked by an age of discovery and exploration. Art historian Dr James Fox continues his exploration of a Renaissance that he believes was as rich and as significant in Britain as it was in Italy
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A Very British Renaissance episode 1: Documentary series. Dr James Fox traces the story of how the arrival of a few foreign artists in the 16th century sparked a cultural revolution in Britain. We think of the Renaissance as something that happened only in Italy, or in continental Europe. Art historian Dr James Fox believes otherwise – that
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