The Best Sculpture Documentaries

Art, Music & Design - 33 free documentaries about sculpture.

Start with Why Ancient Christians Destroyed Greek Statues (28 min, ReligionForBreakfast), then Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (30 min, Great Art Explained). All 33 documentaries here are free to watch from their makers' official uploads. To read deeper, the top-rated book on sculpture is Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Georges Duby.

• Why Ancient Christians Destroyed Greek Statues (28 min, ReligionForBreakfast)
• Great Art Explained: Bernini's Apollo and Daphne (30 min, Great Art Explained)
• Waldemar Tours The World's Greatest Sculptures | The Sculpture Diaries (Full Series) (145 min, Perspective)
• How Sculptures Are Used To Create A Powerful Legacy (48 min, Perspective)
• The Body as a Found Object: Antony Gormley | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 40 (24 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Could This Sculpture Be Worth Over £100 Million? | Fake Or Fortune? (58 min, Perspective)
• Nottingham Alabasters: Recreating 18th Century Carvings (29 min, Perspective)
• What's inside the Statue of Liberty? (11 min, Jared Owen)
• The Ancient Art Of Maori Wood Carving | Handmade In The Pacific (45 min, Perspective)
• The Intricate Art Of Sculpting The Feminine (48 min, Perspective)
• The Thinker by Rodin: Great Art Explained (16 min, Great Art Explained)
• The Statue of Liberty: Building an Icon (9 min, The B1M)
• Bill Reid Remembers (24 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• Stories of Art: Alberto Giacometti - The Boy from the Mountains - Part 1 (52 min, HENI Talks)
• Bill Reid (28 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• I Don'T Have to Work That Big (27 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• Kubota (20 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• He Creates Complex Origami Sculptures From A Single Sheet Of Paper | Hobsessions (22 min, CNA Insider)
• Stories of Art: Alberto Giacometti - The Rise of Stick Man - Part 2 (49 min, HENI Talks)
• The Artist They Tried to Ban: How Jacob Epstein Broke Sculpture (15 min, HENI Talks)
• Louise Bourgeois: Memory, Trauma & the Radical Power of Sculpture (11 min, HENI Talks)
• HEADS (8 min, Benjamin Berman)
• Debris (15 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• IN THE SPACE BETWEEN AGES (9 min, Travis Lee Ratcliff)
• Xavier Corberó: Portrait of an Artist in Winter (14 min, Coco Marie Schneider)
• A Continuous Shape (9 min, Eyes & Ears)
• Justin Boyd: Sound and Time (9 min, Walley Films)
• Giv'em a Half Turn (11 min, National Film Board of Canada)
• In The Space Between the Ages (9 min, Travis Lee Ratcliff)
• How Henry Moore Revolutionised Modern Sculpture (34 min, HENI Talks)
• Explore the Powerful World of Elisabeth Frink, One of Britain’s Most Important Post-war Sculptors (10 min, HENI Talks)
• My friend Irène (27 min, Anthony Edels)
• Cool Carvings (25 min, Ammonite)

Top-Rated Books About Sculpture

1. Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Georges Duby - View on Amazon
2. Bernini: His Life and His Rome by Franco Mormando - View on Amazon
3. Rodin by Gilles Néret - View on Amazon
4. The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes - View on Amazon
5. Henry Moore by David Sylvester (4.4/5) - View on Amazon
6. Art by Frederick Hartt - View on Amazon
7. Michelangelo by Michelangelo Buonarroti - View on Amazon