Michael Palin Movies

Short documentary about the making of the film 'The Rutles: All You Need is Cash'.

Jonathan Ross interviews the (living) members of Monty Python on its 30th anniversary. Deleted scenes from Life of Brian are shown.

Alexander Armstrong explores the literature that inspired Michael Palin and Terry Jones's classic TV comedy Ripping Yarns, a loving parody of the...

A celebration of John Cleese and Connie Booth's acclaimed sitcom following the misadventures of Torquay hotel owner Basil Fawlty. The programme...

Miss Barwick is 90 years old. She has lived peacefully in the same house all her life - until a young property developer arrives at her front door to...

Short documentary on the music of the 'prefab four', The Rutles. Shabby Road is where the band recorded most of their music, and it is the name of...

To mark the twentieth anniversary of "Around the World in 80 Days" we went back to Dubai and India to retrace our steps and to see if we could find...

Short biographical documentary about comedian Michael Palin and his early interest in acting and comedy. Includes his education at the Shrewsbury...

A BAFTA award winning drama about a mistake when buying a dress for his mistress leads Howard to look again at his wife.

The legend of Hamish MacInnes began early. At 16 he climbed the Matterhorn. At 17 he built his first motor car – from scratch. He attempted...

An educational comedy film from Guinness instructing how to clean out your pipes in the pub.

New boarder Tomkinson is thoroughly miserable at Graybridge public school where he has to fight the grizzly bear,get nailed to the wall on St...

The National Gallery of London is one of the world’s greatest art galleries. It is full of masterpieces, an endless resource of history, an...

Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production...

Terry Jones and Michael Palin revisit their "pre-Python" sketch show from 1969 which has sadly been wiped by the BBC. At the time, in 2014, only 2...

Telling the stories of the last soldiers to die in the Great War.

Michael Palin discovers the story of 17th-century Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi. He unearths not only her paintings, but a complex and...

When the Phoenix Cinema in East Finchley, north London, celebrated its centenary year in 2010, On-Par Productions were invited to document the...

Super 8 film shot by Palin documenting the Pythons’ time writing and filming “Life of Brian” in 1978.

A special half-hour programme commemorating the launch of Meridian Television.