Europe’s museums are stashed full of Africa’s cultural heritage, much taken in colonial times. Some was looted, some traded. The museums say they’re the rightful owners but others say the objects belong in Africa. This program exmaines the points of view of activists and museum directors.

"An upbeat rom-com filled with Renaissance Faire flower crowns, sword fights, tavern wenches, and an accidentally-in-love romance. Single mother April Parker has lived in the small town of Willow Creek for eighteen years. April is about to become an empty nester, and while she likes her quaint little town, she's decided it's time to move on. She asks her friend Mitch for his help with some home improvements to get her house ready to sell. Mitch...

Sister Wendy Beckett, a hermit nun with an unorthodox passion for art, visits Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, St Petersburg, Amsterdam, Antwerp, Berlin, Vienna and Madrid on a tour of Europe's finest galleries. In “St. Petersburg,” she visits the Hermitage Museum, where she discusses paintings by Rembrandt, Correggio and Wasily Kandinsky. A BBC Production.

This documentary focuses on the essence of the Carracci's art, from the dynamics of their working in a team—the Carracci were the first art collective in history—to the great legacy of their new aesthetics born out of a dedication to practice over theory, still so relevant today. Hosted by well-known art historian, Marco Riccòmini and structured like a road movie, we adventure from Fort Worth, Texas to Oxford, England to Rome and Bologna in Italy...

In no other epoch were artists in the Netherlands so productive, nor the demand for art so great as during the age of Rembrandt. This period saw new genres, and the birth of art markets and the profession of art dealers. This documentary explores this extraordinary period in which business and art merged for the first time. How did such a flourishing period for art come about? What innovations do we owe to this period and what significance does it...

Want to impress your pals with your Renaissance art knowledge? Our enthusiastic, art-history-loving narrator breaks down the context, key artists, and art features that defined the Renaissance period. Filled with fast-paced banter between our expert and his reluctant sidekick, this is a light, entertaining, and contemporary take on the topic, sure to resonate with students.

An art special produced in cooperation with the National Gallery of Art in association with IBM.

This program gives us Locke the man and the thinker. It states, explicates, and clarifies Locke's principal views by placing him in conversational settings as he returns from exile in Holland and in flashbacks with the Earl of Shaftesbury and others. Thus, what emerges is the character of Locke as well as his philosophical positions, which are explained against the political background of his time-when he himself was exiled, and friends, no more revolutionary...

Art historian and critic Andrew Graham-Dixon opens this series with the dramatic story of French art, a story of the most powerful kings ever to rule in Europe, with their glittering palaces and astoundingart to go in them. He also reveals how art emerged from a struggle between tradition and revolution, between rulers and a people who didn't always want to be ruled. Starting with the first great revolution in art, the invention of Gothic architecture,...