Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

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

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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...

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

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.

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

Tony Palmer's award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

This documentary, originally presented on the television series The South Bank Show, covers actor Humphrey Bogart's life and career, including...

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.