Melvyn Bragg Movies

The world is coming to an end, and the last survivors board a space-ship ready to leave the doomed planet Earth in search of a new world.

A documentary on the band

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

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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...

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

Documentary about the Swedish film director, produced for the UK television program "The South Bank."

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

Television documentary about British film director Terence Davies and his film "The Long Day Closes."

Filmed in his London studio, David Hockney sits down with Melvyn Bragg to discuss his remarkable life and career, illustrated by a wide range of his...

London Weekend Television. Hosted by Melvyn Bragg. First screened in the UK on 31st March 1985.

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

A profile of the Iranian film industry

In a programme broadcast 70 years to the day after the outbreak of WWII, people who were alive at the time speak of their memories.