Melvyn Bragg Movies

Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge...

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and...

In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.

A profile of the Iranian film industry

Terry Gilliam is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1991 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Gilliam speaks of his history with the British...

Francis Bacon revolutionised figurative painting in the 20th century. The English painter unmasked his subjects in a provocative and ruthless manner....

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of...

Biography of Marlene Dietrich using interviews, film clips and rare footage of the actress, including her own home movies.

Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

An irreverent survey of British Music.

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

Documentary about Italian film director Ermanno Olmi, with emphasis on "The Tree of Wooden Clogs".

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli