Alan Yentob Movies
- 2014
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar
Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar62014HD
Alan Yentob meets the five surviving members of Monty Python - John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Eric Idle - as they prepare...
- 2024
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now
Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now8.52024HD
Featuring exclusive access to their recent tour and their new album, this documentary reveals the fascinating world of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant...
- 1980
Arena: Dire Straits
Arena: Dire Straits81980HD
Arena cameras were on hand to film the return of Dire Straits from their triumphant 1980 Brothers in Arms world tour. The film features a superb...
- 1982
Mike Leigh: Making Plays
Mike Leigh: Making Plays01982HD
Writer and Director Mike Leigh discusses the techniques used to create his plays.
- 1982
The Catherine Wheel
The Catherine Wheel91982HD
Seamlessly blending elements of movement and music, Twyla Tharp choreographs a rock 'n' roll dance spectacular, set to a score by former Talking...
- 2010
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour
Ai Weiwei: Without Fear or Favour6.52010HD
Arts documentary, first broadcast before Ai Weiwei's arrest by the Chinese authorities in April 2011, and his subsequent release after being detained...
- 2007
How to Get on in the Art World
How to Get on in the Art World02007HD
Alan Yentob immerses himself in the Art World visiting the 5th London Frieze Art Fair in October 2007, the centre of the British contemporary art...
- 2012
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective
Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective02012HD
Crime writer Ian Rankin invites BBC to follow him as he writes his next novel, and as he ponders what to write about after retiring his most famous...
- 2005
Fantastic Mr. Dahl
Fantastic Mr. Dahl02005HD
Documentary about author Roald Dahl, produced for the British television series Imagine.
- 2008
Richard Serra: Man of Steel
Richard Serra: Man of Steel02008HD
Sculptor and giant of modern art Richard Serra discusses his extraordinary life and work. A creator of enormous, immediately identifiable steel...
- 2010
The Seven Year Hitch
The Seven Year Hitch02010HD
This documentary looks at executive producer Philip Segal’s seven-year quest to return Doctor Who to the screen, from his initial contact with...
- 1974
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scotts
Ella Fitzgerald at Ronnie Scotts01974HD
Recorded at Ronnie Scott's in London in 1974 and backed by the Tommy Flanagan Quartet, Ella Fitzgerald performs some of her most famous songs,...
- 2015
Shylock's Ghost
Shylock's Ghost02015HD
As Man Booker Prize-winning writer Howard Jacobson retells The Merchant of Venice, 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, he travels with Alan...
- 2008
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony
Trip to Asia: The Quest for Harmony02008HD
Journey with the musicians of the Berlin Philharmonic and their conductor Sir Simon Rattle on a breakneck concert tour of six metropolises across...
- 2010
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man
Ray Davies: Imaginary Man02010HD
Alan Yentob meets Ray Davies, the creative powerhouse behind The Kinks and author of some of the best-loved songs of the 60s, who candidly discusses...
- 1975
Cracked Actor
Cracked Actor7.21975HD
The documentary depicts Bowie on tour in Los Angeles, using a mixture of vérité sequences filmed in limousines and hotels, and concert...
- 2012
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!
Mel Brooks Strikes Back!6.52012HD
Mel Brooks appears on stage with Alan Yentob, the creative director for the BBC, at the Geffen Theatre in California to review his extensive career...
- 2008
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami8.52008HD
A 2008 documentary about Japanese author Haruki Murakami
- 2013
Goodbye Television Centre
Goodbye Television Centre02013HD
After 53 years Television Centre, the BBC's TV headquarters, is closing its doors and Michael Grade gathers together many of its best-loved faces to...
- 2023
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter
imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter72023HD
imagine... profiles the UK’s most successful double act of the last 40 years, French & Saunders, exploring a brand of comedy based on satire,...