One of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, Gustav Klimt was a Symbolist painter and one of the first to introduce the Art Nouveau movement in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His work is characterized by the portrayal of the female body and a frank eroticism. He is also known for his use of gold leaf in his works. Egon Schiele was a pioneer of Expressionism. He is best known for his portraits and self-portraits. His work was always...

Follow our expert, high-profile panel of judges as they pick, rank and comment on THE GREATEST EVER‘s top ten tanks of all time; the ones that take you to the edge of armored experience and push the metal to the limit. Our team puts their picks through the paces, testing out their claims: we race a tank with a Volvo over 400 meters of rugged winter terrain and let a rock star take one out for a muddy ride. Our well-known, eclectic panel then debates,...

Made in cooperation with the American Film Institute, Directors: Life Behind the Camera features thirty-three legendary directors who reveal intimate and in-depth knowledge about the art of filmmaking and, as well, their own career in the movies. Culled from over 300 hours of interviews, this two-disc, four hour presentation is totally interactive, allowing instant access to a single director, or access to an entire topic involving all directors....

This episode looks at the life and work of the 15th century Italian artist Piero della Francesca. With only 26 surviving works Piero has been seen as one of the mystery men of western art. But his calm, monumental, often enigmatic images mark an important step in the development of Renaissance art. This fascinating film reveals the man behind the myth, an artist that paved the way for likes of Leonardo and Michelangelo. In his typically enthusiastic...

Omnibus celebrates the 75th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, literature's greatest embodiment of the American Dream and the American nightmare. The Great Gatsby is F Scott Fitzgerald's masterpiece. Like no other novel, it captures the reckless pleasure seeking and exuberance of 1920s New York at the height of economic boom, a period Fitzgerald famously christened 'The Jazz Age'. Today more copies are sold every month in the US than...

Grace Kelly, Coco Chanel, Audrey Hepburn, Indira Gandhi, and Madame Chiang Kai-shek were worshipped, loved and sometimes even feared by millions the world over. These pioneers showed that a woman could be the equal of a man but behind the public success, there was often private heartache and personal tragedy. This series, featuring archive interviews and dramatic re-enactment, reveals the price these women paid for their achievements and adversities...

Lorraine Zilner Rodgers was a member of The Women Airforce Service Pilots, known as the WASP, the first group of women pilots to serve the United States Army Air Force in WWII. Out of 25,000 women who applied to the program, Rodgers was one out of 1830 who were accepted. Given the task of ferrying aircraft across the country, to allow the men to be available for combat, Rodgers often had to deal with the stigma of being a woman pilot. The WASP did...

Facing the reality of what happened in Southeast Asia-and bringing others together to reconcile with it-has become the life work of novelist Maxine Hong Kingston, who teaches Buddhism and creative writing to Vietnam veterans. "In the workshops, [they] break out of the solipsism, the narcissism, the isolation," says Professor Kingston, who was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton. In this program, Professor Kingston explores the...

The outbreak of World War II saw two motion picture experts from Germany and the United States battle each other with as much ferocity as any army or navy. Their respective missions: to ignite a public desire to wage and win a global conflict. This Bill Moyers program contains an interview with Fritz Hippler, chief filmmaker for the Nazi Party. Hippler unrepentantly claims to have spoken to the "soul of the masses" through films like The Eternal Jew,...

I have the strength to walk my own path, no matter how hard, in my search for reality, and not cling to the splendid wagon of desperate illusions. A writer of novels, short stories, folktales, plays, and essays, Zora Neale Hurston combined a hunger for research and a desire to penetrate the deepest of popular beliefs with a truly exquisite narrative talent. This illuminating biography of Hurston-a compelling story of a free spirit who achieved national...