In 1992, Graham-Dixon won the first prize in the Reportage section in the Montreal World Film Festival for a documentary film about Théodore Géricault's painting "The Raft of the Medusa". He has since gone on to present many BBC documentary series on art, including "A History of British Art" (1996), "Renaissance" (1999), "Caravaggio" (2002) "The Secret of Drawing" (2005), "The Battle for British Art" (2007), "Art of Eternity" (2007), "Art of Spain" (2008), "The Art of Russia" (2009), "Art of Germany" (2010), "Art of America" (2011), "British Art at War: Bomberg, Sickert and Nash" (2014), " Art of China" (2014) and "Art of France" (2017). He is passionate about the "Mona Lisa", appearing in the popular BBC documentary "Secrets of the Mona Lisa" (2015).