Melvyn Bragg Movies

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

Profile of fashion designer, Vivienne Westwood.

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

A profile of the controversial Yugoslavian director.

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

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

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

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...

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...

Gerald Fox’s film documents Bill Viola and his wife and close collaborator Kira Perov’s odyssey to create two permanent video...

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

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

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

A documentary on the band

Interviews with and performance footage of conductor Sir John Barbirolli.

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

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

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

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