Melvyn Bragg Movies

Actor John Rhys-Davies narrates this illuminating look at the King James Bible -- the most widely sold version of the most important book in...

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

Television documentary on playwright, actor, composer, and film maker Noel Coward.

Terry Gilliam is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1991 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Gilliam speaks of his history with the British...

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by...

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

a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

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

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

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."

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

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

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

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

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

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...

To mark his fiftieth birthday in 1988, London's Tate Gallery staged a major retrospective of his work. Melvyn Bragg joined David Hockney for an...

Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge...