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National Gallery

7.3(48)20142h 54m1

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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Released
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Language
English
  • dance
  • art

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United Kingdom, United States of America, France

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Still from National Gallery

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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

Frequently asked questions

National Gallery was released on 8 October 2014.

Audience reviews

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  • T

    tmdb28039023

    9/3/2022

    6/10

    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…

  • C

    CinemaSerf

    1/30/2026

    7/10

    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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