Bbc Arts Movies

A pioneering artist and cultural icon. His work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself - as seen through the legendary art...

A mother finds photos of the life her son would have lived if he didn't pass away.

Profile of architecture critic Ian Nairn who led a blistering attack on the soulless destruction of Britain by shoddy post-war planners, but who was a...

Join art historian Robert Hughes for a fascinating journey into the life of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Using the artist's works as the benchmarks...

Celebrating urban bird song, a blackbird finds its voice in the streets of Manchester.

The story of Gluck - Britain's cross-dressing high society painter of the 1930s - who staged 'one-man shows', had relationships with women and somehow...

The Skeleton Wummin rests at the bottom of the cold sea, withering away in the passing tides and dreaming of life above the waves, in this vivid and p...

A small group of queer punks find safety and comfort in their local queer pub; but their world is turned upside down. A group of normative heterosexua...

Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II.

Inspired by a collection of poems that directly comment on the director's intersectional experiences growing up as a black woman living in modern Brit...

In a world where artificial intelligence plays an integral role in everyday life, a young and debt-ridden technophobe chooses to take part in a myster...

An empowering retelling of a Welsh folklore explored through modern dance on the coast of Wales. It explores the fight to choose where and with who yo...

Distant memories of the past are recalled as fleeting fragments by a man in his eighties.

A conversation about heritage and spiritualism with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) who lives and works in a barber shop in Walthamstow. The c...

Brenda Emmanus explores the art collection of Charles I, much of which is being reunited for a unique exhibition for the first time since his executio...

Are we living a modern lie? In this extravagant satire, a mysterious carnival master walks us through the problems of our modern society, questioning...