Category: Art & Artists
Episode 2
To produce one of the world's great masterpieces is impressive. To create three is truly astonishingbut this is exactly what Michelangelo did five hundred...
The Mountain That Had To Be Painted
Documentary about the painters Augustus John and his young protege James Dickson Innes whoin 1911, left London for the wild Arenig Valley in North...
Episode 5 Prints of the Floating World
How did an Indian Buddhist shrine influence a Japanese pagoda? How are Italian pigs and cowry shells related to porcelain? These intriguing questions are...
Home Base The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
Nestled between the Adirondacks and the Catskills in central New York State the pastoral village of Cooperstown has a mighty mission: to preserve and...
Episode 1 The Rebel
A three part drama documentary series about Ludwig van Beethoven presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood. It takes eyewitness accounts of the composer's tragic life...
The Poet Who Loved the War Ivor Gurney
A charismatic original Ivor Gurney, who prior to the Great War had suffered a nervous breakdown at the Royal College of Music, enlisted as...
Rita Hayworth
American film actress Rita Hayworth is best known for her stunning explosive sexual charisma on screen in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Trained...
Horse Power The National Museum of Racing
Learn the history of thoroughbred horse racing at the National Racing Museum and Hall of Fame. Thoroughbred racing is one of America's oldest sportsand...
Episode 3 Faith and Fury
A three part drama documentary series about Ludwig van Beethoven presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood. It takes eyewitness accounts of the composer's tragic life...
Vatican Hidden World
To mark the Papal visit to the UKa camera crew have spent a year filming a world that few have ever seen. With unprecedented...