Roger Michell’s last film tells the unlikely story of how the Duke of Wellington’s portrait was stolen from the National Gallery – and found in a train station four years later
Salomé Jashi’s film ‘Taming the Garden’ documents how a tree-hogging former prime minister is pillaging the landscape to create a private paradise
Ridley Scott is pressing ahead with his biopic about Bonaparte – but Rakewell has a modest proposal regarding the leading man
Philip Barantini shot his 90-minute movie about the drama of a busy restaurant service in one take – and it's nail-biting stuff
In what now seems like a warning from history, the artist’s only feature film is about a magazine editor who is forced to work at home
There’s more than one way to knock a figure off its pedestal, as a documentary about dressing up public monuments in Liverpool shows
The Chicago art scene turns out to be a suitably chilling setting for Nia DaCosta’s sequel to the cult horror film
Like the rarest works of art, white truffles from Alba are commodities in a mysterious, monied world
Two documentaries on the ‘lost Leonardo’ have found the story’s sensationalism irresistible – but hard facts are as absent as the painting itself
The TV competition series is billed as a ‘masterclass’ – and none of the contestants will be booted off until the finale. Where’s the fun in that?
The meticulous attention to Chinese decorative arts is as great a draw as the court intrigue in ‘Story of Yanxi Palace’
The Amazon series limps through its art history but is just about salvaged by its endearingly goofy hero
Agatha Christie's sleuth has been nowhere more at home than in ITV's interwar locations – their clean lines the perfect match for the punctilious Poirot
The Gardner Museum heist hasn’t been solved in 30 years – and it’s perfect fodder for a true crime documentary
As a new documentary reveals, the Scottish painter braved wind, rain and Arctic ice in search of his 'rough truth'
Francis Lee’s film plays fast and loose with Mary Anning’s life – but at least it digs the great geologist out of historical obscurity
For Katherine Parkinson's TV play about portrait sitters, Roxana Halls ‘ghost-painted’ a series of portraits – a demanding role, as they tell Apollo
The knavery and folly of the rarefied art world are writ large in a documentary that picks over the Knoedler forgery scandal
Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan shine in the story of the Sutton Hoo discovery
The crotchety cult legend is giving art lessons on TV – and it’s all surprisingly charming
The city’s most devoted citizen explains urban life to Martin Scorsese
By bringing recent Black British history to life, the film-maker has also conjured up a world full of joy and anger
A documentary directed by her daughter sets out just why the collector and philanthropist is beloved by so many
The inspiration behind Batman’s Joker and many a monster movie, Paul Leni’s ‘The Man Who Laughs’ is a masterpiece of Expressionist cinema
