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

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

A documentary first presented on the South Bank Show in 1980 about the career of film director Roman Polanski.

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Opening with the first day of rehearsals of the London production of "Sweeney Todd", this ninety-minute documentary focuses on the rehearsal process...

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...

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...

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

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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

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...

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