Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

The story of Walt Disney and the company he built.

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

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

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...

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional...

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

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 legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a...

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

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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

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...

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

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...

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

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of...