

National Gallery
A portrait of the day-to-day operations of the National Gallery of London, that reveals the role of the employees and the experiences of the Gallery's visitors. The film portrays the role of the curators and conservators; the education, scientific, and conservation departments; and the audience of all kinds of people who come to experience it.
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7.3/10
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- Released
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- Language
- English
- dance
- art
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United Kingdom, United States of America, France
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical5 Nov 2014
FranceFR
- Theatrical8 Oct 2014
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT129 Jan 2015
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTG17 Jan 2015
South KoreaKR
- TheatricalAll25 Aug 2016
SpainES
- TheatricalATP19 Mar 2015
SwitzerlandCH
- Digital / OTT1628 Sept 2014
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National Gallery was released on 8 October 2014.
Audience reviews
2- T6/10
tmdb28039023
9/3/2022
If you can visit the National Gallery in London personally, more power to you. For those of us who can’t, though, National Gallery is the next best thing. As is par for the course in a Frederick Wiseman doc, we learn a lot about the subject matter, and we do it by smosis; not in scripted interviews, but like any other museum visitor; i.e., listening to the guides, whom Wiseman allows to go on at length to better recr…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
1/30/2026
Was it heart and soul that was supposed to distinguish human beings from animals? Well perhaps here it ought to be more art and soul as we take three hours to look into the workings of the UK’s National Gallery in London. Now I know, the thought of a three hour long documentary might be a bit off-putting, but this has been segmented quite sensibly into vignettes that illustrate the myriad of aspects of the work that …
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