Melvyn Bragg Movies

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of...

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

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

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.

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

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

Dennis Potter a television dramatist talks about his work, politics and his fears for both.

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...

A feat that fully matches its title, an alphabetical trawl through both the history of British music and Russell's own likes and dislikes, the latter...

Melvyn Bragg travels from Oklahoma to California to examine the enduring legacy of the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck.

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

A profile of the Iranian film industry

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the...

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

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

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...

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...

A documentary on the band