Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

This lighthearted romp through Royal India presents a world of Maharajas, palaces, imperiled art objects, and the foreign collectors who will stop at...

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.

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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

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...

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

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

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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...

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.

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

This documentary, shot entirely on location in Havana, includes many band members' insights into this revival, and features performance footage of an...

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...