Bacon"s Arena was nominated for an international Emmy, and is widely acclaimed as the definitive biographical documentary on Francisw Bacon. This psecial edition DVD (with over 3 hours of footage), produced in association with the Estate of Francis bacon, has been created to mark the centenary of his brith (2009). Francis Bacon is widely acknowldged as one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century. His paintings of the 1940s bore witness to the shattered psychology of the time and shot him to a prominence that hardly diminished over nearly fifty years.