Melvyn Bragg Movies

Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

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

Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes –...

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...

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

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

Music documentary about the British band Blur during the period surrounding their 1999 album 13. The episode, titled Blur, aired on 21 November 1999...

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

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

The works of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), one of the best known English Romantic artists, still play a leading role in the art market...

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...

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

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

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

A profile of the Iranian film industry

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

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