The Life of Leonardo da Vinci

Seven Ages of Britain

July 2025 •English

Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired on Sunday nights at 9:00pm on BBC One starting on 31 January 2010. The series covers the history of Britain's greatest art and artefacts over the past 2000 years. Each episode covers a different period in British history. In Australia, all seven episodes aired on ABC1 each Tuesday at 8:30pm from 7 September 2010.

The Beauty of Anatomy

July 2025 •English

Dr Adam Rutherford investigates the close relationship between discoveries in anatomy and the works of art that illustrate them.

When We Meet

July 2025 •Chinese

An office worker, Lu Ming, and a high school student, Deng Yu, look exactly alike and cross paths by chance, intertwining their fates. As they navigate each other’s worlds, they gradually learn to understand and heal one another, growing closer until they become an inseparable part of each other’s lives.

Great Southern Landscapes

July 2025 •English

Great Southern Landscapes follows art lover and actor Rachel Griffiths as she explores Australia's most iconic landscapes and the untold personal, social and cultural stories behind them.

The Borgias

July 2025 •English

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.

Mountains and Ocean

July 2025 •Chinese

Xia Ruining, a strong-willed student at Xiling University's Cultural Institute, meets brothers Ye Lin and Ye Miao, whose family has preserved ancient scrolls for generations. She also forms a complex bond with Shen Zhen, the nanny's daughter. Together, they work on restoring ancient paintings while navigating the evolving dynamics of love and friendship.

This is art

July 2025 •Catalan

Through the beauty of artistic forms, Ramon Gener goes inside the inner workings of human nature. All artists use art to explain their emotions.

Amazing Twins

July 2025 •Japanese

Amane Todoroki is a young girl who is straightforward but also unthinking. She will try her very best in everything and say, "I don't know how to answer you if you ask me whether this can be done. I just believe it can. If not, then nothing will get started!" She easily gets stuck in her thinking, but she can also get easily moved at something small and start crying.

Art of America

July 2025 •English

Andrew Graham-Dixon embarks on his most ambitious journey yet, an exploration of the rich, exciting and diverse art history of the United States of America

Art of China

July 2025 •English

Andrew Graham-Dixon undertakes an epic journey to uncover the art of China.

Lily Cole's Art Matters

July 2025 •English

A series of 6 Arts Documentaries, fronted by supermodel, actress and Cambridge Arts graduate, Lily Cole. Lily gets unprecedented access to some of today's most revered and successful contemporary artists. In the name of Art; she navigates the desert with 'wrap' artist Christo, learns the art of boomerang throwing with Mexican artist Gabriel Orozco, models for a nude portrait for Contemporary artist Fiona Banner, has a drawing lesson with the sculptor, Antony Gormley, touches down in Monaco for Marc Quinn's latest exhibition and paints pictures with the doyenne of celluloid film, Tacita Dean. These intimate portraits of artists at home and at play show a side to them rarely seen before. Largely observational documentary in style, there are also contributions from high profile curators, collectors and art commentators; from Ralf Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery to Germaine Geer and, champion of public art, Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The Ideal Exhibition with Hervé Tullet

July 2025 •French

Hervé Tullet, an artist of playful and uninhibited creations, invites young and old to unleash their creativity. He offers a series of creation, recreation and inspiration workshops, so that anyone can put together their own Ideal Exhibition.

The Western Tradition

July 2025 •English

Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.

Pezzi unici

July 2025 •Italian

Borgia

July 2025 •French

The name Borgia stands for betrayal, intrigue and corruption in the Vatican, which was the center of the world during the Renaissance.

Leonardo

July 2025 •English

A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.

À tout hasard

July 2025 •French

Vu par hasard

July 2025 •French

Erotic Art

July 2025 •French

On a journey through a dozen countries, Anik Magny met contemporary artists who are exploring the secrets of desire and the forbidden, creating stunning works that stimulate the senses and give us pause.

The Gift

July 2025 •Turkish

A painter in Istanbul embarks on a personal journey as she unearths universal secrets about an Anatolian archaeological site and its link to her past.