Melvyn Bragg Movies

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky...

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...

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.

Scenes from Huston's "Moulin Rouge," archive footage of the original locations, a Lautrec exhibition at London's "Royal Academy" and interviews with...

A legendary collection of miniature paintings have been locked up in the storeroom of an Indian palace for years; the collection's fame attracts a...

Last week Freddie Mercury would have celebrated his 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, celebrity fans Robbie Williams, McFly and Mike Myers talk...

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

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible into English, which made him a threat to the...

"Zinotchka", directed by Christopher Miles, was made for the BBC's 'FULL HOUSE' arts programme, which invited 7 directors (the others were Jonathan...

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

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

A 1992 documentary about the making of Naked Lunch.

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

A feat that fully matches its title, an alphabetical trawl through both the history of British music and Russell's own likes and dislikes, the latter...

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

Interview with Italian film director Federico Fellini.

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

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

Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, featuring extensive behind-the-scenes coverage of...

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