The art of decay. Albert Pinkham Ryder's paintings decay over time due to his use of unstable materials.

The life and imagination of Bruno Schulz including drawings, a film of the mural discovery and a newly discovered short story by Schulz

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

Interview with Sergei Parajanov here he discusses how making Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) led to his imprisonment

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.

While recovering from drugs administered due to an impacted wisdom tooth, Philip K Dick began to have bizarre delusions.

An influential series of prints started in 1745. 16 imaginary subterranean prisons with winding stairs strange architecture.

Wonderful trick film from Georges Méliès where he balances copies of himself on his head and hands.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) photography. Most famous for his studies in locomotion and it's influence on the invention of cinema

Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) physiologist, doctor, biomechanics engineer and inventor of chronophotography.

Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.

Nearly 1,000 atomic bomb tests were detonated in the Nevada Test Site in the Nevada Desert from 1951 until 1992.