Starring: Richard Armitage, Julian Glover, Amanda Root.

This 3 hour mini-series tells the intimate history of a most illustrious brotherhood of Impressionist artists - Monet, Degas, Renoir, Czanne and Manet.

Entirely based on documentary evidence, special effects transport the viewer inside some of the world's best-loved paintings. Populated by the cream of British acting talent, The Impressionists will recreate the illuminated landscapes, and haunting portraits of late 19th-century France.

DVD Extras: Picture gallery, atists' biographies and cast filmographies.

Starring: Richard Armitage, Julian Glover, Amanda Root

art history, history of art, painters