Melvyn Bragg Movies

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.

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

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

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

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

Television documentary about British film director Ken Loach.

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

1981 episode of London Weekend Television's The South Bank Show examines the film and features interviews with novelist John Fowles, screenwriter Haro...

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

An American actor in England tries to find love and work.

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

Interview with the British author, William Golding.

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

Documentary about British film director Michael Powell

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

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

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...

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

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

A documentary on the band