The Michelangelo Code: Lost Secrets of the Sistine Chapel

The Michelangelo Code: Lost Secrets of the Sistine Chapel

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak is on the quest to explain exactly what the Sistine Chapel's ceiling is actually trying to tell us.

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Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art

Manet: The Man Who Invented Modern Art

Manet is one of the main candidates for the title of the most important artist there has been. As the reluctant father of Impressionism, and the...

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The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson

The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson

Has one of Britain's greatest artists been unfairly forgotten? Waldemar Januszczak thinks so. In this documentary, Januszczak argues that the...

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Toulouse-Lautrec: The Full Story

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Full Story

Art Critic Waldemar Januzczak presents this documentary which details french artist Toulouse-Lautrec's life.

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Ugly Beauty

Ugly Beauty

Documentary in which art critic Waldemar Januszczak argues that beauty is still to be found in modern art, despite several recent books claiming...

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Rubens: An Extra Large Story

Rubens: An Extra Large Story

These days, nobody takes Rubens seriously. His vast and grandiose canvases, stuffed with wobbly mounds of female flesh, have little appeal for the...

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Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman

Mary Magdalene: Art's Scarlet Woman

Waldemar Januszczak explores the impact of Mary Magdalene's myth on art and artists. In art all Christian saints are inventions but Mary Magdalene...

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The Lost Supper

The Lost Supper

This rare film tells the strange, disquieting and protracted story of the restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper...

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William Dobson, the Lost Genius of Baroque

William Dobson, the Lost Genius of Baroque

Acclaimed British art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, investigates the few known facts about William Dobson and seeks out personal stories he left...

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Holbein: Eye of the Tudors

Holbein: Eye of the Tudors

A survey of Hans Holbein's career from his beginnings as a religious painter to his work for Henry VIII and beyond. The program also includes a...

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Gauguin: The Full Story

Gauguin: The Full Story

Art critic and broadcaster Waldemar Januszczak wrote and directed this examination of a man who was not only a great painter but sculptor, wood...

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Puppy Love

Puppy Love

A curious title given that for 50 minutes, Januszczak snarls his way through a canine critique and it’s not clear which he despises more, dogs or...

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Travels with My Camera: The Happy Dictator

Travels with My Camera: The Happy Dictator

A film crew goes into Turkmenistan pretending it's for a stag party, but they are really recording a documentary about the secretive country.

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Sickert vs Sargent

Sickert vs Sargent

Sickert vs. Sargent brings to life two of the biggest characters in modern British art; Walter Sickert - the gruff, aggressive man-of-the-people;...

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Beijing Swings

Beijing Swings

Art critic Waldemar Januzczak explores Beijing's controversial and challenging modern art scene.

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Waldemar Januszcak: My Ukrainian Journey

Waldemar Januszcak: My Ukrainian Journey

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak goes to Ukraine to see how Ukrainian art is being preserved in times of war.

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