Melvyn Bragg Movies

a spoof TV documentary film (a "mockumentary") charting the life and career of the fictitious British actor Sir Norbert Smith.

Spoof documentary looking at the life of Normal Stanley Fletcher, the star of 1970s sitcom Porridge played by Ronnie Barker. Featuring fictional foota...

Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie...

A surprisingly candid behind-the-scenes account of the career of Ken Loach, one of Britain’s most celebrated and controversial filmmakers, as he prepa...

Funny, passionate, exciting, and smart: ‘Muse Of Fire’ will change the way you feel about Shakespeare forever. This unique feature documentary follow...

This was an official documentary shown on television featuring George Martin taking us through the album tracks and Paul, George and Ringo giving us t...

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.

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...