Art History Movies

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, in 1953. Determined to confront...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.

Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint...

Sabine vows to give up married lovers, and is determined to find a good husband. Her best friend Clarisse introduces her to her cousin Edmond, a busy...

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...

A look at the Sun, the star that revolves at the center of the Solar System, and its representation in art throughout history.

This made-for-TV documentary introduces the layperson to concepts and technologies that were emerging in computer interface design in the late 1980s a...

Kingdom of Granada, al-Andalus, 14th century. After recognizing that his land, always under siege, is hopelessly doomed to be conquered, Sultan Yusuf...

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 pedest...

In 1940, the German artist Charlotte Salomon (1917-43) undertook an extraordinary artistic adventure, during which she combined painting, text and mus...

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the infamous Third Reich, assembled a collection of thou...

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their respective invention in what today is considered to be...

In November 15, 2017, the painting Salvator Mundi, attributed to Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519),was sold for an unprecedented $450 mill...

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...

Acquired in July 1909 by art collector Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929),director general of the Prussian Art Collections and founding director of the Kai...

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

Art historian Alastair Sooke traces the humanization of the Devil figure in medieval art from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

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...