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The Best Episodes of Arthouse

Every episode of Arthouse ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Arthouse!

The Best Episodes of Arthouse

Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts.

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    #1 - The Van Gogh Fakes

    S1:E1

    Geraldine Norman investigates the growing body of evidence that casts doubt on the authenticity of paintings which have long been held to be works of Vincent Van Gogh.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Big War in Lilliput

    S1:E2

    Hungarian businessman Gyorgy Klapka attempts to resurrect the once-famous Lilliput dwarf theatre in Budapest, closed down long ago by the Communists, to mount a production of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi. But after suffering years of exploitation as well as banishment, the dwarf actors are keen to maximise their assets by appearing in other, perhaps more lucrative productions.

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    Director:Nicholas Rohl
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - In Search of the Amber Room

    S1:E3

    Anthony Wilson tries to solve the mystery of the Amber Room of the tsars in St. Petersburg, stolen by the Germans and never found.

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    Director:Stuart Clarke
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - A Very British Psycho

    S1:E4

    Vilified on its release in 1960 as pornographic, Michael Powell's film Peeping Tom is now regarded by many as a masterpiece.

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    #5 - Rebel With a Cause

    S1:E5

    Can flamboyant US ad-man Tony Kaye market himself as a serious artist?

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    Director:Marc Munden
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Naked and Famous

    S1:E6

    Profile of rap artist and writer Tricky, who returns to the Bristol estate where he grew up.

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    Director:Mark Kidel
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - Ivanov Goes to Moscow

    S1:E7

    Ralph Fiennes, Harriet Walter, and the rest of the Almeida Theatre Company earlier this year took their acclaimed production of Chekhov's Ivanov back to its roots in Moscow.

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    Director:Geoff Dunlop
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    #8 - Songs from the Golden City

    S1:E8

    Returning from exile, Joe Mogotsi of the legendary Manhattan Brothers, takes us on a cinematic journey into the virtuosity, exuberance and resistance of South African jazz. Joe reconnects with jazz greats Hugh Masekela and Abdullah Ibrahim as he seeks justice, recognition, and recompense for the Manhattan Brothers’ extraordinary catalogue of music.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #9 - Making a Killing

    S1:E9

    Through the story of the Gutmann family's quest to recover the art collection stolen by the Nazis from their parents, questioning the international art market's collusion in Nazi art looting.

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    #10 - Spy in the House of Love - Anaïs Nin

    S1:E10

    Back in the 1960s, the novelist Anaïs Nin was acclaimed as a feminist icon when her revelatory diaries were published. But she had omitted much of her bigamous past, and it is only now that a complete picture of this secretive writer is emerging.

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    Director:Coky Giedroyc
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - The Fine Art of Crime

    S1:E11

    The theft of a Caravaggio from a Palermo church nearly 30 years ago shocked the art world. Since then, art has come to play an integral part in the laundering of the proceeds of crime. Reviewing some of the most famous stolen works of art.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - The Other Francis Bacon

    S1:E12

    Art-world orthodoxy holds that Bacon did not prepare or rehearse his paintings. But Bacon's friend and neighbour Barry Joule has revealed an enormous cache of sketches and treated photographs he claims Bacon left to him.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - The Lost Frescoes

    S1:E13

    Restoration of frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, badly damaged in a 1997 earthquake, is being held up.

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    Director:Heenan Bhatti
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - Tuning With the Enemy

    S1:E14

    American piano tuner Ben Treuhaft tries to get pianos into Cuba.

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    #15 - Daydream Believers

    S1:E15

    Tells the story of five people who auditioned to become Monkees but failed to make the cut. Their feelings about it range from relief to embarrassment, self-justification, and regret.

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    Director:Ian MacMillan
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - A Roll of the Dice: The Story of The Capeman

    S1:E16

    The 40-member cast of Paul Simon's Broadway musical disaster The Capeman grapple with the staging of the controversial show based on a true story about a 16-year-old Puerto Rican kid, Sol Agron, who murdered two people in the 1950s.

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    Director:Jeremy Marre
    Writer:Unknown
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    #17 - The Lost Supper

    S1:E17

    The restoration of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous masterpiece, The Last Supper, produced results some call glorious and others call tragic. Da Vinci’s famously fragile fresco was always going to be a challenge for its secretive Italian restorers. No one, however, could have foreseen how problematic and strange their task would become. Marked by a series of extraordinary mishaps, mistakes, and miscalculations, the incredible restoration is hilarious to watch but may have resulted in the loss of a masterpiece.

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    Director:Colin Spector
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Loving Lenin

    S1:E18

    Imaginative use of archive footage and interviews to examine how Lenin achieved mythical status, and why his death is still mourned by some in Russia.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - The Cowboy and the Eclipse

    S1:E19

    James Turrell is famous for creating the world's largest piece of "land art" - reshaping a volcano. But he has also built a giant camera obscura on a Cornish hillside to record the eclipse image.

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    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Van Gogh Fakes" is the best rated episode of "Arthouse". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/26/1997. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Big War in Lilliput".