Tony Palmer

Yet more archive film has been found from the famous 1972 tour, which formed the basis of the best-selling 2010 DVD Bird on a Wire. Concert ...

A collection of unedited interviews with Vangelis recorded for the film Vangelis and The Journey To Ithaca in September 2008, which was ...

Director Tony Palmer tells the incredible life story of Athol Fugard, the prolific playwright, novelist, and director who exposed the horrors of ...

Celebrated filmmaker Tony Palmer follows Leonard Cohen on his 1972 European tour. The film, after extensive re-editing from its initial version, ...

Shot over the course of a year, this intimate portrait of provocative composer John Adams presents scenes of the artist at work and at play ...

In 1945, the new Polish government asked for the heart of Chopin previously buried in Paris. A woman called Paulina Czernika approached the ...

The life of composer, conductor, pianist and Oscar-winner Andre Previn, filmed during a year which culminated in the world premiere of his first ...

Tony Palmer tells the life story of Sergei Rachmaninoff through the use of home movies, concert footage, and interviews. John Gielgud reads from ...

Though perhaps best known for his star turn in Broadway’s “The Phantom of the Opera,” Michael Crawford has more than 30 ...

This is Palmer’s highly controversial portrait of Brahms – a film that exploded the familiar image of ‘stodgy old bearded ...

The story of Henry Purcell.

This emotional film by the award-winning director Tony Palmer includes a performance of the “Third Symphony” by The London Sinfonietta alongside ...

Interviews, footage and photos profile violinist Yehudi Menuhin as prodigy, musician, husband, father and teacher.

Rose Sellars is a middle-aged woman who falls in love with a widower. However, his children believe that their father is too old to start a new ...

The story of the great Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975) and his life and career during the rule of Stalin.

Tony Palmer’s award-winning feature-length documentary profile of Richard Burton.

The story of the last years of Handel.

In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing “The Girl of the Golden West” when his wife Elvira accuses him of a ...

This autobiographical film about the most important and influential composer of the 20th century includes documents, photographs and film never ...

Gustav Von Aschenbach, a passionate composer, arrives in Venice as a result of wanderlust and there meets a young man by whose beauty he becomes ...

A documentary by Tony Palmer on English composer Sir William Walton (1902–1983), made shortly before his death. The film includes the only ...

1969’s Apollo 11 mission to the moon is highlighted in this tribute to the history of the United States’ space program.