Documentaries : Art-culture

Why has the samurai sword always been such a powerful symbol of Japanese culture? Dr. Inazo Nitobe, the man pictured on Japan's 5,000-yen note, tried to answer that question for the world. As a Japanese diplomat at the League of Nations, he was asked by a western colleague how - without religious in...

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The movie about Stephen Hawking's ideas from his book titled the same and about his life....

By the end of the last Ice Age our hunter-gatherer ancestors had survived the cold for 25,000 years, but were now about to change the world. Their Stone Age revolution made our civilisation possible & set humanity on the long journey to the modern world....

The first in a three-part series of documentaries that explore the links between the Third Reich and its leaders and belief in occult powers and practices, this program examines the history of the swastika. The "armed cross" had roots in spiritual practices in India and Tibet, and this film explains...

Wuqiao is the regional centre in China for circus and acrobatics. Mr Jiang runs one of the 36 peasant circuses in the region and takes them on tour each year. He trains peasant children from the age of six and some of them go on to becomes famous performers but circus in under threat from television...

In this documentary, Salvador Dali is interviewed. This legendary artist is Spanish, so his replies are subbed in English. Dali was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance ma...

Born to a family of millers in Leiden, Rembrandt left university at 14 to pursue a career as an artist. The decision turned out to be a good one since after serving his apprenticeship in Amsterdam he was singled out by Constantijn Huygens, the most influential patron in Holland. In 1634 he married ...

A wandering family that made out of joy its product, out of tricks its job. Charles, Zuleide, Gilberto, Cleide, Rogerio, Claudio e Lobao are the seven dwarfs, all of them sons of the mythical Pindoba, the smallest and funniest clown in the world. Together, they form the Pindorama Circus, going from ...

In 2003 Martin Bashir filmed a documentary with Michael Jackson entitled Living with Michael Jackson. Following the broadcast of the documentary Michael was unhappy with the way Bashir had portrayed and so had a rebuttal film made out of footage not shown....