Melvyn Bragg Movies

A documentary on the band

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier.

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

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

In this documentary Roy Lichtenstein is interviewed and discusses his life and art work, what influenced him, where his ideas came from, how his art...

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

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

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

An LWT South Bank Show, presented by Melvyn Bragg, exploring the phenomenon of countertenor singing. With its unique, soaring beauty, the high male...

The celebrated British artist discusses his life and work with Melvyn Bragg in his Normandy studio, revealing his influences, inspirations and plans...

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...

Alan Bennett's personal overview of art, filmed in the atmospheric location of a Leeds art gallery.

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

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

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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

This documentary traces the lives of Gibb brothers and takes a look through their memories, creating some of the greatest hits in the world as the...

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

A mockumentary charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

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