Sky Arts

Award-winning art critic Waldemar Januszczak explores Japan to India to find the most explicit art ever made and to ask why art has always been so interested in sex.

A look at the 90s social issues, including the Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill hearings, racially-fuelled events like Al Sharpton and the Crown Heights riots, Rodney King and the LA riots, and OJ Simpson's murder trial.

A glimpse into the life of Academy Award-nominated star John Malkovich, whose extensive portfolio of work includes starring roles in 'Places in the Heart' and 'In the Line of Fire'.

This musical drama stars John Malkovich as a crazed dictator on his last legs who delivers a powerful monologue accompanied by the music of Bach, Franck, Widor, Messiaen and Ligeti.

In an East London concrete jungle, two best friends embark on a risky mission and a journey into manhood as they seek to fulfil a request made by one of their brothers from prison.

The award-winning Tom Stuart-Smith is a garden extraordinaire, but his latest task for The Hepworth Wakefield art museum in West Yorkshire could pose the greatest challenge for the designer.

Jim and Nancy are crossing the Irish Sea as they head to Ireland to create beautiful art while they search for the little tern, which lives up to its name as the smallest of its species in the country.

John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream weaves tangled love, jealousy and magic as fairies, mortals and rustics collide in a dreamlike world.

Bob creates a monochromatic scene with a grassy meadow and leafless trees surrounding a cottage.

Bob Ross paints a lake hideaway landscape with an icy mountain serving as the towering backdrop.

Penniless and in danger of losing his beautiful girlfriend, an ace memory man tries to exploit his one asset by helping a dubious character recall a station locker number.

On the brink of bankruptcy, Claire desperately needs her rich aunt's inheritance to save the luxury hotel she runs with her lover. She is prepared to go to any lengths necessary in order to get it.

Two friends unknowingly tell a middle-aged professor (Robert Emhardt) about his wife's (Cara Williams) reputation.

A brother and sister (Hume Cronyn, Carmen Mathews) scheme to defraud an insurance company. With James Gleason.

A look at the life of Academy Award-winning actor Maggie Smith, whose extensive portfolio of work includes the 'Harry Potter' franchise, 'Sister Act', 'Gosford Park', and 'A Room with a View'.

A look at the making of Duran Duran's 'Rio', an optimistic, celebratory, and uniquely visual album that catapulted the band to global success against the turbulent backdrop of Thatcher's Britain - a time of riots, unemployment, and the Falklands War. The programme tells the...

A man has an unpleasant shock when he learns that his recently deceased father owed large sums of money to booksellers specialising in salacious volumes, and he resolves to save his mother from further distress.

George Devon is murdered and one of his nephews is seen fleeing the scene. The problem is Devon's nephews are identical twins. Local Sheriff Milt Singleton has to work out a means of telling them apart and nailing the killer.

An unsuccessful artist (Donnelly Rhodes) accused of bomb threats devises a scheme to steal artworks.

With each of the students pursuing different crafts, the first masterclass delivered by Sarah Goss, who asks the craftspeople to create a carving inspired by William Morris and the arts and crafts movement.

A look at the life and career of Academy Award-winning actor Ben Kingsley, whose extensive film work has seen him star in 'Gandhi', 'Schindler's List', and 'Shutter Island'.

The Battersea Arts Centre in London sees nine artists creating portraits of radio DJ and television presenter Melvin Odoom, actor and musician Max Beesley, and actress and comedian Emily Atack.

Gerry T Armstrong is on holiday in England, revisiting some of the places he saw when he was a young GI. During his travels, Gerry finds the old dance hall is now a tawdry nightclub, but he still wants to find a girl he met there during the war.

Elderly Teuton Von Baden tells his colleague Winterluck a tale from his youth when he was a student in Heidelberg over 50 years ago. A fellow student was a bully but a fine swordsman who one day challenged another youth to a fight.

A man (Hurd Hatfield) assumes another identity to kill his aunt (Mildred Dunnock) but forgets one important detail.

A lonely man is overjoyed when he is contacted by his long-lost sweetheart, but he soon becomes suspicious when she arrives with a baby whom she claims is the orphaned child of her sister.

Actor readings, archive footage, and immersive visuals explore the haunting worlds of Charles Dickens' supernatural tales, which capitalised on the popularity of ghostly stories during the Victorian era.

Crowned an international star at just 22 years old thanks to Titanic, the biggest success in the history of cinema at the time, Kate Winslet charts her own path by choosing complex female roles that go against the cliché of the young heroine.

Dying at just 24, James Dean remains the ultimate icon. By embracing his flaws, doubts, and fragility, he transformed traditional masculinity and forged himself into an enduring anti-hero.