Melvyn Bragg Movies

A documentary video that profiles the life of David Lean, the director of Doctor Zhivago and Lawrence of Arabia.

Last week Freddie Mercury would have celebrated his 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, celebrity fans Robbie Williams, McFly and Mike Myers talk...

An Artist's Story concerns the confrontation of ideas between Anton, a young landscape painter, and Lydia, a young aristocratic girl who devotes her...

This was an official documentary shown on television featuring George Martin taking us through the album tracks and Paul, George and Ringo giving us...

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the...

a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

An irreverent survey of British Music.

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

London Weekend Television. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg. First screened in the UK on 31st March 1985.

Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates...

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...

This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an...

John Cleese is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1986 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Cleese speaks of his comedy background, writing for...

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

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

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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.