Born in 1873, Alice Guy was the world's first female director, making nearly a thousand films on both sides of the...
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Archival imagery, home movies, photographs, animation and original interviews create a vivid, colorful journey through...
Back for a second season, this series reveals the secrets behind high-profile art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries.
A glimpse of the real Marilyn Monroe is revealed through the interviews she gave, books she wrote and the fragments she...
In 1982, French President Mitterand declared that the site of the notorious Bastille prison would be transformed into an...
Dance legend Darcey Bussell explores the life and story of ballerina Margot Fonteyn, uncovering a personal life that...
Internationally esteemed art dealer Philip Mould and journalist Fiona Bruce investigate thrilling cases of art world...
Fiercely independent, Georgia O'Keeffe carved out a special place for herself in the art of the 20th century with her...
In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be...
Rembrandt is considered one of the most famous artists in European history, but his work was often misunderstood in his...
The success of Choral Evensong came down to the preferences of a young Queen Elizabeth I, driven by her deep love of...
Canadian architect Raymond Moriyama overcame injustice and went on to design groundbreaking works, including the Ontario...
Andrew Graham-Dixon reveals who the Mona Lisa was, using centuries-old documents and state-of-the-art technology to...
Margaret Mountford travels to Egypt's Valley of the Kings to uncover the story of Harry Burton, the man whose images of...
Historian Amanda Vickery rescues female artists from the shadows of obscurity, giving them their rightful place in the...
Andrew Marr tells the stories behind 10 of the greatest paintings in the world - exploring works by Picasso, Van Gogh...
The first Black writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Toni Morrison exposed the fault lines of racial prejudice...
Journalist and art critic Alastair Sooke tracks down ancient Egyptian treasures that deserve to be celebrated not just...
This intimate portrait explores the life of legendary dancer, director and choreographer Twyla Tharp, with a look at her...
Described as our "our Van Gogh", Thomson's expressive and vibrant paintings of the northern landscape have become iconic...
An intimate portrait of Canada's most renowned artist and the expansive landscapes that inspired him.
Alastair Sooke looks at how, despite political decline, the final era of the Egyptian Empire saw its art enjoy revival and rebirth.
Fiona and Philip head to the Essex countryside to investigate whether an intriguing statue bought at a local car-boot sale could be a genuine work by Dame Elisabeth Frink.
Alastair Sooke examines treasures from ancient Egypt's most opulent era, starting with troubling psychological portraits of tyrant Senwosret III and ending with the golden mask of Tutankhamun.
With the help of the team, a widow tries to find out if a mysterious Old Master painting in a church in Port Glasgow is a lost masterpiece by one of the great painters of the Northern Renaissance.
Exploring how ancient Egypt's art reflected its religion, Alastair Sooke looks anew at the Great Pyramid and the statuary and paintings of the Old Kingdom.
An American couple who bought a landscape of a French village at auction believe it's by the great Impressionist, Alfred Sisley. Can the team find proof that it's genuine?
Henrietta Sitwell inherited a sketch she believed to be by the 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani, but she's been told it might not be genuine. Can the team find some answers?