Movies

Film Essay based on “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos” by John Berger.

Oliver Walston investigates his mother Catherine's 20-year relationship with the writer Graham Greene, which gave rise to Greene's famous novel The...

Recording of the actor in conversation with Joan Bakewell at the National Film Theatre, London.

Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). ...

Talking with Michael Parkinson and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London. An informal discussion illustrated with extracts...

A documentary portrait of one of the world's superstars of Jazz, pianist Keith Jarrett, exploring his life and work.

Bette Davis talks with Joan Bakewell and members of the audience at the National Film Theatre, London.

This documentary features acclaimed Chicagoan broadcaster and Pulitzer Prize winner Studs Terkel talking about the value of oral history and the...

Stephen Frears and a quartet of film industry notables - representing different cinematic periods - drink tea and discuss ups and downs of British...

Art, politics and motorcycles - on the occasion of his 90th birthday John Berger or the Art of Looking is an intimate portrait of the writer and art...

Actor Rex Harrison talks entertainingly about his long stage and screen career with David Lewin and members of the audience of the National Film...

“Parting Shots from Animals” was inspired by essays by John Berger and developed in collaboration with Chris Rawlence. Shot entirely in...

A short film Mike Dibb directed for the BBC in July 1968 in Cowdray Park, where Godard was shooting a sequence with the Rolling Stones for ONE PLUS...

Short film, going behind-the-scenes of shooting for One Plus One (1968) in London, featuring an interview with Godard sitting beside a tree. Many...

This British documentary shows the complex layers of legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, who was a major innovator in post-bop, cool jazz, hard-bop...

Cyril Lionel Robert James (1901-1989) was a historian, journalist and contributor to Marxist thought. Stuart Hall was able to interview him for...

For over forty years, virtuoso saxophonist/composer Barbara Thompson has been Britain's most brilliant and best-known female jazz musician. But in...

An interview with film director Roman Polanski, recorded for BBC TV in 1967.

The rarely-seen 1994 BBC TV documentary on the legacy and influence of John Berger, featuring interviews with Alain Tanner, Geoff Dyer, Jean Mohr,...

A translation to film of Raymond Williams’ 1973 book of the same title which traces images of ‘nature’ and ‘town’...