Movies: Melvyn Bragg

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 Bee Gees. Including interviews, archive footage, and new versions of classic songs - all recorded in t...

Eric Idle is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 2006 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). The surviving members of Monty Python discuss the huge success of Spamalot on Broadway and Eric Idle discusses the history of the musical....

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

Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video installations for London’s St Paul’s Cathedral, Martyrs and Mary, the first art commissions of their kind to be installed in...

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch....

A documentary about the making of Bill Forsyth's 1983 film "Local Hero."...

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

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

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional footage and interviews with the character's family, friends and associates, the film documents Fletcher's...

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

A multi-award winning biography covering the life and career of legendary screen and stage actor/director Laurence Olivier....

An irreverent survey of British Music....

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

Actor John Rhys-Davies narrates this illuminating look at the King James Bible -- the most widely sold version of the most important book in Christianity. It effectively changed the way the English-speaking world would interpret Holy scripture. This ...

This was an official documentary shown on television featuring George Martin taking us through the album tracks and Paul, George and Ringo giving us their memories of the sessions. The Making Of Sgt. Pepper was transmitted in the UK on ITV on 14th Ju...

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

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....

An intimate portrait of David Hockney, featuring interviews with the artist - one of Britain's most beloved painters - in London and Normandy, and exclusive new footage of a master at work....

Terry Gilliam is interviewed by Melvyn Bragg in this 1991 episode of The South Bank Show (1978). Gilliam speaks of his history with the British comedy group Monty Python and is joined by Michael Palin in discussing his films including Jabberwocky, Ti...

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