Art documentaries

Looking for something cool to watch on TV? Here's my guide to the 30 best films and documentaries for art lovers, culture vultures, and cinephiles in general.

If you are going to spend time watching a movie about drawing, painting or your other art-related hobby, you're going to want to make sure it's a good one.

Travel around the world through the eyes of 15 established and emerging documentary photographers and discover the insightful, moving, and beautiful intricacies and varieties of human experience they create with the medium of film photography.

My usual date for a Saturday night in is something mindless like Keeping Up With the Kardashians (reserve your judgments, people). But every once in a while, I’m reminded that it can be just as fun to watch something with more substance. It elevates a cozy weekend night into something really fulfilling and educational. Even when I polish off a bottle of wine as I watch.

Marat/Sebastio - pictures of garbage by Vik Muniz

From Justin Dingwall to Kudzanai Chiurai.

From the smacked-out Rolling Stones travelogue Cocksucker Blues, to house music history lesson Pump Up the Volume, to a behind-the-scenes look at Fleetwood Mac, Eric Harvey collects 20 great music docs you can stream online right now.

Documentary photographer based between Eastbourne and London, UK. Vic Odden Award winner 2022 - Royal Photographic Society. Personal projects include Reality Trauma, In the Blood.

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The Kilburn-raised photographer talks us through his evocative portfolio, lensing “the beauty and warmth” of his community, as well as his Afro-Caribbean and North African culture