The incredible true story of how the world's greatest Street Art movie was never made... "A film about a man who tried to make a film about me" is how renowned British graffiti artist Banksy describes this feature. Banksy is used to fiercely guarding his identity to avoid prosecution...

Get the shot... Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis sued him, Marlon Brando broke his jaw and Steve McQueen gave him a look that would have killed, if looks could kill. To the celebrities he pursued, photographer Ron Galella was the beast who threatened beauty. His shots have been the cause of tears, grin...

A year in the life of the Queen of Comedy. JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK takes us on a year long ride with the irreverent comedian and pop icon Joan Rivers, peeling away the mask of the legendary performer, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performe...

The poem that rocked a generation. The obscenity trial that started a revolution. Oscar®-nominee James Franco (127 Hours) stars as the young Allen Ginsberg-poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. In his famously confessional style, Ginsberg recounts the road t...

A Film about The Doors. WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE is a breathtaking journey into the hypnotic world of The Doors. Uncovering historic and previously unseen footage of the illustrious rock quartet, WHEN YOU'RE STRANGE provides new insight into the revolutionary impact of the music and legacy of The Door...

Make Art Not War Eighty-year-old Jimmy Mirikitani survived the trauma of WWII internment camps, Hiroshima, and homelessness by creating art. But when 9/11 threatens his life on the New York City streets and a local filmmaker brings him to her home, the two embark on a journey to confront Jimmy's ...

Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff's transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe's lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new...

Jacque Tati, France s unique master of comedy film, was a loner and did not belong to any school except his own. He kept his distance from other directors and from ideas like the cinéma d auteur. Yet his four main features (Jour de Fête, Les vacances de M Hulot, Mon Oncle and Playtime), made with me...

Alongside his Beat contemporaries, Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs was one of the first writers to break the boundaries of 20th century literature. Addressing queer and drug culture in the 1950s, his novel Naked Lunch became one of the most recognized and respected of contempor...

The search for the perfect sound. Stefan Knüpfer is quite possibly one of the most gifted musical talents in the world... but he’s not a musician. A piano tuner for Steinway, he works with celebrated pianists the likes of Lang Lang, Brendel and Pierre- Laurent Aimard, helping them crea...

A portrait in progress. A renowned photo-realist, Close’s artistic glory is his talent for creating remarkably true-to-life portraits of famous friends and peers. After an illness left him paralysed, it was only by exploring alternative methods of painting that he was able to overcome his p...

The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and The Tangerine is a film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally raw. She is "the real McCoy,"...

A Love Story: CHRIS & DON: A LOVE STORY is the true-life story of the passionate three-decade relationship between British writer Christopher Isherwood (whose Berlin Stories was the basis for all incarnations of the much-beloved Cabaret) and American portrait painter Don Bachardy, thirty year...

The image that launched a thousand t-shirts... In 1960, Cuban photographer Alberto 'Korda' Díaz captured a photo of Ernesto 'Che'Guevara during a mass funeral. History conspired to enable this dynamic portrait to explode on the world scene in 1968 throughout Europe and Latin America, when ...

Make Something From Nothing... In the 1990s, a loose-knit group of American artists and creators, many just out of their teens, began their careers. Influenced by the popular underground youth subcultures of the day, such as skateboarding, graffiti, street fashion and independent music, artists l...

A Portrait of the Portrait Artist Portrait painter Alice Neel (1900-1984) was a self-described collector of souls who recorded her sitters on canvas through six decades of the 20th century, among them Andy Warhol, Bella Abzug, Allen Ginsberg and Annie Sprinkle. Neel always sought the "authen...

THE COOL SCHOOL is an abject lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive, often brilliant artists, including Ed ...

GONZO is directed by Alex Gibney, the Academy Award nominated director of 'Enron: the Smartest Guys in the Room' and the director of the Academy Award winning documentary, 'Taxi to the Dark Side'. While Gibney shaped the screen story, every narrated word in the film springs from the typewriters of T...

Francis Bacon (1909-1992) is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. Bacon's arena was nominated for an international Emmy, and is widely acclaimed as the definitive documentary on the life of Francis Bacon.

Keith Haring's legacy is all around us. His images are everywhere: on walls, posters, T-shirts, watches - in our memories and imaginations; modern icons. "Art is for everyone!" - this is how Keith Haring put it when he summed up the meaning of his stylized silhouettes with which he decorat...

Dream of Life is a plunge into the philosophy and artistry of cult rocker Patti Smith. This portrait of the legendary singer, artist and poet explores themes of spirituality, history and self expression. Known as the godmother of punk, she emerged in the 1970's, galvanizing the music scene with her ...

Edward Burtynsky is internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs of nature transformed by industry. Manufactured Landscapes - a stunning documentary by award winning director Jennifer Baichwal - follows Burtynsky to China, as he captures the effects of the country's massive industrial r...

The most compelling and comprehensive movie ever produced about the life and work of Peter Beard, the photographer & writer who relentlessly fought in defence of Africa's fauna, this is the definitive portrait of the world's greatest adventure photographer. Narrated by Charlotte Rampling, the fi...

This is director Esther Robinson's riveting personal inquiry into the mysterious 1966 disappearance of Danny Williams, a promising young filmmaker, Warhol's lover, and Robinson's uncle. The film features intimate interviews with surviving Factory members and astonishing footage from Williams' recent...

Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker Anton Corbijn has created some of his generation's seminal rock images. Photographing musicians as diverse as U2, The Killers and Nirvana among others, Corbijn has created an aesthetic which is as stark and uncompromising as it is beautiful. Shot as ...

The Friendship that Defined French Cinema. Jean-Luc Godard was born in 1930; François Truffaut in 1932. They watched the same films, wrote for the same magazines, and when Truffaut storms the international cinema scene at Cannes in 1959, he helps his pal move into filmmaking. The pair beco...

An artist’s journey. One of the modern art world’s most polarising figures, Jeff Koons is an artistic anomaly: a shrewd businessman, he is remarkably dismissive about the presence of meaning in his kitsch neo-pop works. Featuring interviews with Koons himself, curators, gallerists and...

Annie Leibovitz has produced some of the most iconic images of the last 30 years and is, literally, our most influential woman photographer. She has shot the rich and famous, the profound and powerful, the exceptional and notorious. Her camera has documented the horrors of war most recently in Saraj...

You don't have to be a Rockefeller to collect art... HERB & DOROTHY tells the extraordinary story of Herbert Vogel, a postal worker, and Dorothy Vogel, a librarian, who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means. In the early 1960...

The Modernism of Julius Schulman... VISUAL ACOUSTICS celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman, the world’s greatest architectural photographer, who brought modern architecture to the American mainstream. Shulman captured the work of nearly every major modern and progressive architec...

A Candid History of the New York Art Scene, 1940-1970 Originally released in 1973 but never before available on DVD, PAINTERS PAINTING is the definitive documentary on the New York School of painters, from 1940-1970. Director Emile de Antonio (Point of Order and Millhouse) interviews artists in t...