Melvyn Bragg Movies

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.

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...

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

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

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

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".

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

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

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

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

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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

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...

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