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 profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

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

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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

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...

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

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

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

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

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

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

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and...

Melvyn Bragg sets out to unravel the many questions surrounding one of the Bible's most enigmatic and controversial figures: Mary Magdalene.

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.