Documentary television series about art

Civilisation

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Sir Kenneth Clarke guides us through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilisation in western man. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider civilisation's a...

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Light & Magic

Series Age rating: 12 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Granted unparalleled access, Academy Award®-nominated filmmaker Lawrence Kasdan takes viewers on an adventure behind the curtains of Industrial Light & Magic, the special visual effects, animation and...

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Fake or Fortune?

Series Age rating: 3 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 8.6

Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.

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Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 8.5

The team behind Frozen II open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to reveal the hard work, heart, and collaboration it takes to create one of the most highly-anticipated films in...

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Simon Schama's Power of Art

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2006 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Documentary series in which historian Simon Schama recounts the story of eight moments of high drama in the making of eight artistic masterpieces.

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Visible: Out On Television

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Explore the history of the LGBTQ movement through the lens of TV in this five-part docuseries. Combining archival footage with new interviews, it looks at homophobia, invisibility, the evolution of LG...

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Britain's Lost Masterpieces

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Series tracking down lost, hidden, and misattributed paintings from local museums and galleries across Britain.

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Tales by Light

Series Age rating: 6 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Behind every powerful image is a powerful story. Uniting exploration, photography and the natural world, Tales By Light follows photographers from Australia and around the world as they push the limit...

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Civilisations

Series Age rating: 10 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.8

The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, thi...

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