1. Generation Renovation: Lake House
Interior designer Danielle Bryk sets out to build her sister and brother-in-law's lake house from the ground up. She works with local contractors and uses environmentally friendly techniques to bring the home to life in just four months.
2. Welcome Back Potter
Actress Monica Potter has returned to Cleveland, Ohio to buy and restore her childhood home, which has remained unchanged for three decades. Together with her feisty mother and three outspoken sisters, she's leading a massive renovation of the lake house, bringing back its original glory along with contemporary touches. From the furniture and mementos of her youth, to some hidden history, Monica uncovers more than she ever expected coming home.
3. Live Here, Buy This
Showing homeowners properties around the world that match the cost of their current home. A couple sees what they can afford in three enticing locations that fit their lifestyle.
4. Portrait Artist of the Year
Artists from the UK and Ireland compete by creating portraits of famous people.
It has an average vote of 6.7 on TMDB.
5. Sensationalists: The Bad Girls and Boys of British Art
Rebellious, provocative and unapologetic. The Young British Artists crashed the 90s art scene, making Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst and others household names. This is their story.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
6. Civilisations
The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations.
It has an average vote of 7.8 on TMDB.
7. Arthouse
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.
8. A History of Art in Three Colours
Dr James Fox explores how, in the hands of artists, the colours gold, blue and white have stirred our emotions, changed the way we behave and even altered the course of history.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
9. Watercolour Challenge
Three amateur artists are given four hours to paint, in watercolour, the same scene or landscape, often with widely different interpretations. At the end of the four hours, the guest professional artist for the week judged the paintings and selected the winner, who would then appear in a regional final, and if successful would compete in the end of series final.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
10. Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast
His art changed the way we see the world - now change the way you see the artist. An unflinching look at Picasso's legacy, and the horror and brilliance of what he left behind. Family, friends and experts reassess the tumultuous artistic and personal life of Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most provocative artists of all time.
11. The Art of Japanese Life
Dr James Fox looks at the art and culture of Japan.
It has an average vote of 8.7 on TMDB.
12. The High Art of the Low Countries
This 3 part series is presented by the British Art Critic, Andrew Graham-Dixon. He explores the Low Countries of the Netherlands and Belgium and how history has influenced the area's art, architecture and culture. Cloth was used in the area's first expression of art in the making of tapestries going back to the 14 th century. They were the No. 1 luxury item of the day. The Low Countries were well placed geographically for markets for their art.
13. Meraviglie. La penisola dei tesori (Meraviglie. La penisola dei tesori)
The beautiful Italy
It has an average vote of 9.5 on TMDB.
14. Gourmet Farmer
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation that chefs don’t have the best produce in the land, normal people who live close to the land do. So he moved to Tasmania, to a small patch of earth, where he’s raising pigs and sheep, milking a cow and waiting for his chickens to start laying.
15. Design At Your Door
Housebound homeowners who are sick of their spaces get style help from HGTV's top designers. Using a combination of self-taped footage and video calls, the experts guide owners on how to make design and decor improvements in just a few days.
16. Sommartorpet (Sommartorpet)
Sommartorpet was a Swedish home improvement television programme broadcast by Sveriges Television. It was broadcasted in the summer and based around the renovation of an old house.
17. Art sous enquête (Art sous enquête)
(Art sous enquête)
18. The Art of Punk
The Art of Punk, a series of documentaries from MOCAtv, the video channel of Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art. Emphasizes its focus on, literally, the visual art of punk: its posters, its album art, its T-shirts, and even — un-punk as this may sound — its logos.
19. Watercolour Challenge
Fern Britton presents this revival of the fondly remembered daytime watercolour painting competition. Talented amateur artists are challenged to paint a picture of a scenic location with their efforts judged by a professional artist.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.
20. Giants of Art (Giganten der Kunst)
Michelangelo, Rembrandt van Rijn, Vincent van Gogh - the documentary series "Giants of Art" dedicates a film to each of these three artists. Three exceptional geniuses who went their own way and left behind iconographic works of art; which still inspire the art world today.
It has an average vote of 6 on TMDB.