Melvyn Bragg Movies

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...

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

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

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

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the...

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

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

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

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...

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

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

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

A profile of the Iranian film industry

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

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