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)[4] The Secret of Drawing (2005),[5] The Battle for British Art (2007),[6] Art of Eternity (2007),[7] Art of Spain (2008),[8] The Art of Russia (2009), Art of Germany (2010), Art of America (2011),[9] British Art at War: Bomberg, Sickert and Nash (2014)[10], 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).[11]