The Mona Lisa Curse is a timely polemic by internationally renowned art critic Robert Hughes which examines how the world's most famous painting came to influence the art world. With his trademark style, Hughes explores how museums, the production of art and the way we experience it, have radically changed in the last 50 years.

Gonzo is directed by Academy Award Winning Filmmaker Alex Gibney, who shapes the screen story while every narrated word comes from the writings of Thompson himself, narrated by Johnny Depp. The film features hilarious, illuminating, and poignant contributions from both those that loved Hunter and those that sparred with him including the legendary Ralph Steadman, Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner, Hell’s Angel Sonny Barger, George McGovern, Pat Buchanan, Jimmy Buffet and Jimmy Carter.

Alan Yentob meets the renowned German film director, screenwriter, actor and opera director Werner Herzog. Legendary for his refusal to compromise in his search for the ‘real truth’, Herzog has a reputation for pushing cast, crew and studios to the absolute limit. With footage from Werner’s extensive back-catalogue of work, including Grizzly Man, Even Dwarfs Started Small and Fitzcarraldo, the documentary is a revealing insight into one of modern cinema’s most surprising and complex filmmakers.

Jeremy Paxman takes his love of Victorian painting as the starting point for an extraordinary journey into Victorian Britain. This is a world where every picture tells a story - dramatic, overstated, captivating - the cinema of its day. Victorian pictures offer a uniquely vivid, almost documentary account of the dramatic upheavals of the age, from the social melting pot of railway travel to the melodrama of family conflict and the raw vitality of the Victorian city.

Heavy Load are Lewes’ answer to the Ramones, a punk outfit subject to the combustible flux of ego, ambition, fantasy, expectation and desire that fuels any emerging band. But they’re also, uniquely, made up of musicians with and without learning disabilities.

Waldemar Januszczak presents his definitive account of his all-time favourite art-form - sculpture - in this new three-part series.
In three epic journeys, Januszczak uses sculpture to explore attitudes to sex, power and the cosmos, to demonstrate why sculpture has been, and will continue to be, at the heart of our cultural lives.

Paul Scofield's portrayal of King Lear was voted by his peers the greatest stage performance of the century. The most powerful and difficult role in English drama, its ultimate challenge was tamed and inhabited as never before. Scofield turned Lear's rage and turbulence into an understated, simmering portrait utterly unlike any other.

Caravaggio produced in The Taking of Christ a painting akin to a shot of a street fight by a paparazzi, as Christ is seized by soldiers. Though celebrated in its time, as its creator fell out of fashion, the great painting vanished for two centuries. Then an Italian restorer was called in to a religious house in Dublin, where paintings needed cleaning. There on the wall was the lost Caravaggio. This film tells the story.