Gothic art from late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance is revealed in this film in all of its splendour and variety.
View Details >>The extraordinary richness of sculpture from the twelfth to the sixteenth century is revealed in this unique film. Historian Phillip Lindley introduces a selection of surprising and startlingly beautiful artworks from churches and cathedrals in England and Wales.
View Details >>An Illuminations production in association with the V&A. London’s V&A Museum has one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from the Middle East.
View Details >>Marcus Gheeraerts II (1561/2-1636) was one of the great portrait artists of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he painted many of the leading Britons of the time, including Elizabeth I.
View Details >>Since 1903 the National Art Collections Fund has helped purchase more than 500,000 works of art for British museums and galleries. Ten of the greatest artworks are celebrated by curators and guests in this film.
View Details >>State of the Art is an exciting, authoritative, and challenging series of thematic documentaries about the visual arts in the 1980s. The six-programme boxset features key artists including Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joseph Beuys, Cindy Sherman, Antony Gormley, Hans Haacke, and Eric Fischl.
View Details >>Portraits are one of the great subjects of British art, and from school photos to passports, portraits are also central to all our lives. In two films for Five, Fiona Shaw goes on a journey…
View Details >>Art that was “headbuttingly impossible to ignore” is how Charles Saatchi describes the work that intrigued him as he started to collect British art in the early 1990s. This fast-paced and fascinating film features 100 of these artworks.
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
