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...

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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 surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as...

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

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

Produced in 1993, this documentary depicts the development of Annie Leibovitz's career as a celebrity photographer.

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...

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

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

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.