Free Arts & Culture Documentaries — Page 3

Painters, photographers, musicians and the masterpieces that changed culture. 769 free arts documentaries.

Painter Rose Wylie is guided by instinct rather than rules2026•24m•HD•★7.8Lebanon: Civilians on the Frontline | ARTE.tv Documentary2026•25m•HD•★7.8Painter Louis Fratino pairs bold colors with expressive figures inspired by art, literature and life2026•19m•HD•★7.8Cambodia: Blood Bricks | ARTE.tv Documentary2026•25m•HD•★7.8France's No Kids Generation | ARTE.tv Documentary2026•30m•HD•★7.8Artist Eva Schlegel: Breaking Perception2026•19m•HD•★7.8Dinosaurs for sale: Is the global fossil market harming science? | 101 East Documentary2026•48m•HD•★7.8Writer Danez Smith: Poems Have Saved My Life2026•46m•HD•★7.8Artist Walton Ford: A Bubble in the Lake | Louisiana Channel2023•46m•HD•★7.8Artist Camille Henrot: "I did everything I could not to become an artist" | Louisiana Channel2024•31m•HD•★7.8Artist Anna Boghiguian: If You Don't Belong, You Belong to Yourself2025•20m•HD•★7.8Remedios Varo: The Painter of Magic | Louisiana Channel2026•24m•HD•★7.8Writer Elif Shafak: The Transformative Power of Literature2025•26m•HD•★7.8Writer Orhan Pamuk Presenting the Museum of Innocence | Louisiana Channel2024•26m•HD•★7.8Artist Grace Weaver: "I'm drawing in painting."2025•24m•HD•★7.8Architect Jenny Sabin: Nature is an Incredible Teacher | Louisiana Channel2024•33m•HD•★7.8John Singer Sargent (Full Length): Madame X and Dr. Pozzi2023•33m•HD•★7.8Great Art Explained: The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci2024•36m•HD•★7.8Dark Goya (Full length): The later Works2023•51m•HD•★7.8The School of Athens by Raphael: Great Art Explained2025•25m•HD•★7.8Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne2023•30m•HD•★7.8Jackson Pollock Part One: The Myth of the Modern Artist2025•26m•HD•★7.8The family who lived in the National Gallery for 16 years | National Gallery2024•27m•HD•★7.8Restoring Paolo Uccello's 'Battle of San Romano' | Part 2 | National Gallery2025•20m•HD•★7.8Punk: 50 Years of Rebellion | ARTE.tv Culture2026•30m•HD•★7.8Infinity: How Does It Feel? | ARTE.tv Culture2026•30m•HD•★7.8Tattoos: Art on Skin | ARTE.tv Culture2026•30m•HD•★7.8Electric Bodies | ARTE.tv Culture2025•48m•HD•★7.8Leni Riefenstahl: The Horrible Power of Images2025•26m•HD•★7.8How Pulp Fiction Revolutionized Cinema2024•26m•HD•★7.8Caspar David Friedrich - Explained in 10 Famous Paintings2024•26m•HD•★7.8Why Kraftwerk are more influential than the Beatles2023•18m•HD•★7.8Mondrian | Episode 1 | Fake or Fortune S12 | TVO Docs2026•58m•HD•★7.8Helen McNicoll | Episode 2 | Fake or Fortune S12 | TVO Docs2026•58m•HD•★7.8Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery2025•1h 39m•HD•★7.8Blue Rodeo: the iconic Canadian band tells their story | Exclusive musical performances2025•1h 28m•HD•★7.8How stolen Indigenous masks inspired a global art movement2025•1h 28m•HD•★7.8Having a kid taught me that you have to figure out your joy2025•1h 28m•HD•★7.8The dark network that sells stolen art to billionaires2026•55m•HD•★7.8Fragrances - Japanology Plus2026•28m•HD•★7.8Addis - The Bold Art Scene of Ethiopia's Capital | Art.See.Africa2025•26m•HD•★7.8Nairobi's colourful art scene I Art.See Africa2025•26m•HD•★7.8Tokyo's Geisha: Inside the closed world of Japan's Enigmatic Icons | Foreign Correspondent2026•31m•HD•★7.8Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (Full Length): Great Art Explained2021•51m•HD•★7.8The World's Largest Museum: Inside Egypt's Billion Dollar Project2025•50m•HD•★7.8Holbein's extraordinary 'Ambassadors' | National Gallery2018•38m•HD•★7.8There Are No Fakes | Full Film | TVO Docs2020•1h 55m•HD•★7.8Who Was The Real Mary Magdalene? Art's Scarlet Woman (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary)2020•59m•HD•★7.8How The Impressionists Escaped The Studio (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary)2020•59m•HD•★7.8Matisse: The Red Studio: Great Art Explained2026•25m•HD•★7.8Baroque In Britain: Waldemar Visits The Hawksmoor Churches & St Pauls Cathedral | Ep 32020•59m•HD•★7.8The Rich Wild West Of American Art | (Waldemar Januszczak Documentary)2020•59m•HD•★7.8Bankrupt Couple Desperately Need Painting To Be Authentic | Fake Or Fortune?2023•58m•HD•★7.8In a Brilliant Light: Van Gogh in Arles, 1984 | From the Vaults1984•57m•HD•★7.8Magic Shadows, Elwy Yost: A Life in Movies | Full Film | TVO Original Documentary2021•59m•HD•★7.8Raphael: The Renaissance Virtuoso | National Gallery2018•24m•HD•★7.8Jony Ive Shows The Real Process Behind the Ferrari Luce2026•45m•HD•★7.8Georg Baselitz: Only in Art the World is Whole2014•31m•HD•★7.8Egon Schiele: Great Art Explained2025•25m•HD•★7.8What is Art? Marcel Duchamp: Great Art Explained2024•27m•HD•★7.8Ivan the Terrible and his Son Ivan by Ilya Repin: Great Art Explained2025•25m•HD•★7.8How Muslim Art Challenges The Dark Ages Myth2020•1h 0m•HD•★7.8China's Van Goghs: The Village That Paints Thousands Of Fakes A Year2022•1h 15m•HD•★7.8Rubens: Why Is He So Misunderstood?2020•58m•HD•★7.8Hans Holbein's 'Christina of Denmark'2018•33m•HD•★7.8Sandro Botticelli: Venus and Mars in Renaissance Florence2017•28m•HD•★7.8"Great buildings express their true essence to the world." | Architect Bjarke Ingels2017•48m•HD•★7.8Writer Han Kang: "I always move on with the strength of my writing."2020•31m•HD•★7.8Treasures of New York: Stanford White2014•57m•HD•★7.8Gold Coast Mansions on Long Island | Treasures of New York2024•26m•HD•★7.8Fujii Kaze: Now, in the World - NHK MUSIC SPECIAL2025•44m•HD•★7.8Picture My Face: The Story of Teenage Head2020•1h 26m•HD•★7.8The Forbidden Reel2021•2h 0m•HD•★7.8Uncovering Shakespeare's Mysterious Life2022•43m•HD•★7.8What The Barbarians Did For Art: The Huns, Vandals and Goths (Waldemar Januszczak)2020•1h 0m•HD•★7.8The Strange Attraction Of The Mona Lisa | The Secret of Mona Lisa2021•52m•HD•★7.8Da Vinci: A Man Of Science Or Of The Arts? (Full Art Documentary)2022•51m•HD•★7.8The Ambassadors: Great Art Explained2026•27m•HD•★7.8Caravaggio, Bernini and Pozzo: Great Art Cities: Rome2025•22m•HD•★7.8Alice Neel: They Are Their Own Gifts, 1978 | From the Vaults1978•20m•HD•★7.8The Final Years of Beethoven | Being Beethoven2025•59m•HD•★7.8How Courbet's Realism Paved The Way For The Impressionists | Great Artists2023•49m•HD•★7.8The Art of Indonesia: Tales from the Shadow World, 1990 | From the Vaults1990•28m•HD•★7.8Art as Propaganda: Great Art Explained: Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David2025•23m•HD•★7.8The Guca Trumpet Festival2019•26m•HD•★7.8Turkish fashion: From hijabs to streetwear2021•26m•HD•★7.8Scholars claim Alexander bronze in Greece restitution deal to be a fake2023•28m•HD•★7.8An encounter with artist Shirin Neshat2018•26m•HD•★7.8How to become a respected ballet dancer2023•21m•HD•★7.8The Story Of The Smiths: Greatness and Controversy2021•1h 28m•HD•★7.8Let There Be Rock: The Origins Of AC/DC2022•1h 31m•HD•★7.8Pearl Jam: The Trials And Success Of The Grunge Titans2022•1h 28m•HD•★7.8Joy Division: The Poster Children Of Post-Punk2021•1h 9m•HD•★7.8The Who: The Most Influential And Controversial Acts Of The 60s2022•1h 2m•HD•★7.8The Velvet Underground: One Of The Most Unique And Underappreciated Bands Of The 60s2021•1h 23m•HD•★7.8The Never-Before-Told Story Of The Beastie Boys2021•1h 1m•HD•★7.8The Cure: The Making Of The Goth Rock Legends2022•1h 8m•HD•★7.8Hamilton: Behind The Musical | Full Documentary2021•1h 13m•HD•★7.8The Rolling Stones: How The Legendary Band Found Their Voice2021•1h 25m•HD•★7.8Meddle: The "Lost" Album That Defined The Pink Floyd Sound | Classic Album Under Review2021•1h 1m•HD•★7.8The Chaotic Rise & Fall of Alternative Rock | Underground Inc2023•1h 39m•HD•★7.8The Art Of The American Metropolis2020•59m•HD•★7.8The Outcast Artists: America's Most Underrated Painters2020•59m•HD•★7.8Scribes Of Ancient Egypt: The Art Of Egyptian Hieroglyphs2022•52m•HD•★7.8William Dobson: England's First Artistic Genius | (Waldemar Januszczak)2020•59m•HD•★7.8Van Gogh's Most Prolific Years With Waldemar Januszczak | Vincent: The Full Story2020•49m•HD•★7.8How Van Gogh's Sister-In-Law Made Him A Renowned Painter | Raider Of The Lost Art2021•44m•HD•★7.8How Renoir's Eye For Colour And Beauty Made His Paintings So Unique | Great Artists2023•50m•HD•★7.8Tracking Down The Art That Was Stolen By The Nazis | Raiders Of The Lost Art2021•44m•HD•★7.8Race Against Time To Prove Sketchbooks Are By Toulouse-Lautrec | Fake Or Fortune?2023•59m•HD•★7.8Was Philip Wrong About This Gainsborough Painting 20 Years Ago? | Fake Or Fortune?2023•59m•HD•★7.8How William Blake's Gothic World Challenged Classic Art | Great Artists2023•49m•HD•★7.8The Life Of Paul Gauguin: From Fraught Friendships To French Polynesia | Great Artists2023•48m•HD•★7.8Ugly Beauty: How To View Modern Art2022•59m•HD•★7.8The Divine Comedy: How Dante Provided A New World Theory | Literary Classics2023•51m•HD•★7.8Venice Special (Biennale): Great Art Cities Explained:2022•24m•HD•★7.8Leonora Carrington: Self-Portrait (Inn of the Dawn Horse)2025•27m•HD•★7.8Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of2015•1h 45m•HD•★7.8Sneakerheadz: The Exploding Culture of Sneaker Collecting2015•1h 9m•HD•★7.8Sun Xun: One of China's Most Ambitious Young Artists | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 462017•24m•HD•★7.8From Earth to Sky2021•1h 22m•HD•★7.8Ballet of Hope: From the Barrio to the Stage2024•12m•HD•★7.7To Feel The Pain of Frida Kahlo2023•1h 19m•HD•★7.7The Magic of Colors2026•28m•HD•★7.7Born Into Brothels2016•1h 22m•HD•★7.73 Magic Words2021•1h 11m•HD•★7.7Twenty Feet from Stardom2021•2h 31m•HD•★7.7The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (2021•2h 34m•HD•★7.7Mystify Michael Hutchence2021•2h 42m•HD•★7.7B.B. King Tells His Life Story2021•2h 53m•HD•★7.7Stanley Kubrick A Life in Pictures2021•2h 25m•HD•★7.7Andy Goldsworthy Natural Sculptures With Ice, Stone & more2021•2h 34m•HD•★7.7Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie2021•1h 30m•HD•★7.7Bergman: A Year in a Life2021•2h 57m•HD•★7.7Life Itself2021•2h 1m•HD•★7.7MINIMALISM: Official Netflix Documentary (Entire Film)2021•1h 18m•HD•★7.7Who Is Harry Nilsson (And Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him)?2021•2h 54m•HD•★7.7Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace2021•1h 24m•HD•★7.7Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World2021•2h 35m•HD•★7.7Who Is Banksy?2021•1h 23m•HD•★7.7Style Wars: The Birth of Hip Hop2021•1h 7m•HD•★7.7Tom Petty: Somewhere You Feel Free - The Making of Wildflowers2021•1h 30m•HD•★7.7Kurt Cobain: About A Son2021•1h 37m•HD•★7.7The Life Of A Cultural Icon: The James Dean Story2021•1h 15m•HD•★7.7Unsigned: A Rock Bands Documentary2023•1h 20m•HD•★7.7A Journey Through the History of Classical Music2023•23m•HD•★7.7Michelangelo: Secrets of the Sistine Chapel2023•1h 11m•HD•★7.7Louis Armstrong: Ambassador of Jazz2023•32m•HD•★7.7Round Miles: A Miles Davis Documentary2023•54m•HD•★7.7The Untold Story of Picasso2023•50m•HD•★7.7Van Gogh: The Painter with 900 Paintings2023•50m•HD•★7.7Fata Morgana1971•1h 21m•HD•★7.7The Wizrd | Future2024•1h 4m•HD•★7.7The State of the Music Business in 20252025•1h 0m•HD•★7.7Phil Collins: Drummer First2024•2h 1m•HD•★7.7French Art Dealer Vanishes With $50 Million | The $50 Million Art Swindle2025•1h 29m•HD•★7.7Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase The Blues Away2025•1h 30m•HD•★7.7How AC/DC Electrified Global Music2025•1h 55m•HD•★7.7When Artists Work With Scientists, It Might | Art & Science Collide2025•56m•HD•★7.7Inside The Dark History Of The Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Most Infamous Exhibits2026•47m•HD•★7.7