Melvyn Bragg Movies

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...

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

Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable life and career, illustrated by a wide range of his...

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...

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...

Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."

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

Documentary about the making of the film first presented on the British television series "The South Bank Show".

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

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

A profile of the Iranian film industry

A documentary first presented on the South Bank Show in 1980 about the career of film director Roman Polanski.

Scenes from Huston's "Moulin Rouge," archive footage of the original locations, a Lautrec exhibition at London's "Royal Academy" and interviews with...

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional...

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

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

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

Melvyn Bragg sets out to unravel the many questions surrounding one of the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figures: Mary Magdalene.

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