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Series
Pub. Date
[2008?]
Summary
Kurt Schwitters is generally acknowledged as the twentieth century's greatest master of collage. He found himself at the forefront of contemporary art and allied himself with the avant-garde, including various Dada groups. Throughout his turbulent life, Schwitters stood his ground with his non-elitist creation of Merz, which laid the groundwork for Pop Art and post-modernism.
Pub. Date
2010
Summary
The untold story behind the legend explores the world of Sherlock Holmes and discovers the truth behind Conan Doyle's love-hate relationship with his meal ticket detective creation, and asks the question in one dramatic episode: What was it that made him fight to kill off the man who had dominated his life for so long? The life of the author who gave the world the Holmes adventures was at times as dark and mysterious as the man that he'd conceived....
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Summary
Feared, tortured and burned, the witch played a central role in religious ceremonies all over the world; but sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This revealing program tells the incredible story of witchcraft through the ages, with expert commentary and historical recreations.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
The Celts were the first European people north of the Alps to rise from anonymity. Wild and ferocious, they were also romantics and mystics, and they shared a family of languages that are now the oldest living tongues of Europe. Their story is one of survival, defiance, and creativity, often in the face of oppression. The story of The Celts is presented in a six-episode set as told by The Celts themselves.
Pub. Date
2013
Summary
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) was one of the twentieth century's finest and most influential poets. The program interweaves extracts from his letters and readings from his Duineser Elegien (Duino Elegies), the intensely personalized visions which are the culmination of his literary achievement. The biographical details of his restless and emotionally-troubled life add substantially to an appreciation of his complex philosophical work, which is left...
16) Art of the cross
Pub. Date
[2010?]
Summary
Looks at how the crucifixion has been portrayed in art from the times of the early Christians to works by modern artists.
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
Alan Yentob takes an epic train ride through Leo Tolstoy's Russia, examining how Russia's great novelist became her great troublemaker. Guided by the writer's confessional diaries, Yentob travels through Tolstoy's Russia looking at the life, work and legacy of the author. It reveals a difficult, restless, ferociously brilliant man with an appetite for causing trouble both for himself, his family and for the world around him due to his fundamentalist...
19) Hitler's museum
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
This documentary relates the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art - The Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck, which for the Belgian people represents a national shrine.
20) Points in space
Pub. Date
[2007]
Summary
This is the critically acclaimed collaboration for the screen by choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer John Cage, and filmmaker Elliot Caplan.
