An exciting collection of feature films and documentaries that were produced originally for television broadcast, including the landmark documentary series, State of the Art, but which are now available for streaming and download.
Art of Faith I and Art of Faith II are visually sumptuous series filmed in HD exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Religions of the Tao. The six-hour-long films, presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, visit many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings in the world.
View Details >>Art of Faith I is a visually sumptuous series filmed in HD exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The three-hour-long films, presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, visit many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings in the world.
View Details >>Art of Faith II is a visually sumptuous series filmed in HD exploring the architecture and art of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Religions of the Tao. The three hour-long films, presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, visit many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings of the world.
View Details >>Produced alongside the V&A’s landmark 2004 exhibition, Encounters explores both the Western fascination for the exotic materials of Asia as well as the interest in European technologies in India, China, and Japan.
View Details >>Glass Now is a fascinating documentary exploring contemporary artists and their use of glass.
View Details >>Gothic art from late medieval England and the early years of the Renaissance is revealed in this film in all of its splendour and variety.
View Details >>An Illuminations production in association with the V&A. London’s V&A Museum has one of the world’s finest collections of Islamic art from the Middle East.
View Details >>London Orbital is an extraordinary and visionary film by Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair about the world’s largest by-pass, the M25. It is a road movie, a cinematic excursion into the futuristic literature of a century past, and a film dialogue between two writers who are also filmmakers (and vice versa).
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Matthew Bourne brings his unique take on the legendary 1948 feature film.
Shakespeare’s classic love story is given a novel twist by being set in the dystopian “Verona Institution”.
