Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

A profile of the Iranian film industry

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

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

Interview with the British author, William Golding.

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

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.

John Cleese is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1986 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Cleese speaks of his comedy background, writing for...

Interview with director/choreographer Bob Fosse, first shown on British television.

The works of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), one of the best known English Romantic artists, still play a leading role in the art market...