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Ben Lewis.
Ben Lewis (born 1966[1]) is a British art critic, historian and documentary filmmaker.[2]
- 2019: The Last Leonardo: Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting, a history and investigation of the Salvator Mundi painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci[3]
- 2008: Hammer & Tickle. The Communist Joke Book, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
- Also published in Germany, Portugal, Poland, Slovenia and Italy[4]
- 2017: The Beatles, Hippies and Hells Angels: Inside the Crazy World of Apple (unauthorized film; narrated by Peter Coyote)
- 2013: Google and the World Brain
- 2009:The Great Contemporary Art Bubble, "explores the current international art market, from its heady peak to its inevitable crash",[5] best feature documentary at the Foyle Film Festival
- 2006: Hammer & Tickle: The Communist Joke Book, a documentary about Russian political jokes, best documentary at the Zurich Film Festival[6]
- 2005: Blowing Up Paradise, about French nuclear testing in the Pacific, Special Jury Prix at the FIFO (2008)[7]
- Since 2003: Art Safari series;
- 2001: The King of Communism: the pomp and pageantry Nicolae Ceausescu, Best Historical Documentary award from Grierson Awards (2002)[9]
- 1999: The Lost Race; history of the National Front and its splinter groups