Melvyn Bragg Movies

David Hockney is unquestionably one of the most passionate and versatile experimental artists on the contemporary scene. In the late 1970s the...

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

Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes –...

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...

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

The celebrated British artist discusses his life and work with Melvyn Bragg in his Normandy studio, revealing his influences, inspirations and plans...

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

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

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

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...

A profile of the Iranian film industry

Music documentary about the British band Blur during the period surrounding their 1999 album 13. The episode, titled Blur, aired on 21 November 1999...

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

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

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

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...

Join Melvyn Bragg for an insightful journey into why “Art Matters,” With a career spanning over 60 years, Bragg passionately advocates...

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