Melvyn Bragg Movies

A documentary on the band

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

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

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

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

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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.

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

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

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

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

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

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...

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