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Isadora [as Producer - Director Ken Russell] (1966) available on DVD, as part of the 3-disc set Ken Russell at the BBC
Alice in Wonderland [as Producer - Director Jonathan Miller] (1966) available on VHS and DVD
The Art of Conducting - with Georg Solti (1966)
Up the Theatre - with Judi Dench (1966)
Conceit (1967)
Benjamin Britten & his Festival (1967)
Burning Fiery Furnace (1967) available at www.benjamin-britten-dvd.com
Corbusier (1967)
Twice a Fortnight - with Terry Jones & Michael Palin (1967)
All My Loving (1968)
CREAM Farewell Concert (1968)
How It Is (1968)
The World of Peter Sellers (1969) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Rope Ladder to the Moon - Jack Bruce (1969)
Fairport Convention & Colosseum (1970) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Glad All Over (1970)
National Youth Theatre - Michael Croft (1970)
200 Motels - Frank Zappa (1971) available on DVD
Brighton Breezy (1971) see below under The Pursuit of Happiness (2015)
Mahler 9 (aka Four Ways to Say Farewell)- with Leonard Bernstein (1971) available on DVD, as part of the 9-DVD Deutsche Grammophon set of the Mahler Symphonies
Ginger Baker in Africa (1971)
Birmingham (1971) see below under The Pursuit of Happiness (2015)
The Pursuit of Happiness (1972) see below under The Pursuit of Happiness (2015)
Bird on a Wire - with Leonard Cohen (1972)
The World of Liberace (1972) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The World of Hugh Hefner (1973) available shortly at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
International Youth Orchestra (1973)
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour (1974) available on DVD
The World of Miss World (1974) available shortly at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Harriet at the Circus / Harriet at Sea / Harriet in a Balloon / Harriet at War / Harriet at the Opera / Harriet at Butlins (1974)
Tangerine Dream - live in Coventry Cathedral (04.10.1975) see below 2017
All You Need is Love - 17 part series on the history of American Popular Music, with Bing Crosby, Sinatra, Rolling Stones, Dylan, Muddy Waters etc. (1975/76)
All This & World War II (1976) see below 2016
The Wigan Casino - the story of break-dancing (1977)
Biddu (1977)
The Edinburgh Festival (1977)
The Mighty Wurlitzer (1978)
The Edinburgh Festival Revisited (1978)
The Space Movie - NASA's official 10th anniversary film, music by Mike Oldfield (1979) see below 2016 available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Pride of Place [6 parts] (1979)
A Time There Was - profile of Benjamin Britten (1979)
First Edition (1980)
At the Haunted End of the Day - profile of William Walton (1980)
Death in Venice - opera by Benjamin Britten (1981) available at www.benjamin-britten-dvd.com
Once, at a Border... - profile of Igor Stravinsky (1982)
Wagner - by Charles Wood, music conducted by Georg Solti, photographed by Vittorio Storaro; with Richard Burton, Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, etc. (1983)
Primal Scream - Art Janov (1984)
Puccini - with Virginia McKenna & Robert Stephens (1984)
God Rot Tunbridge Wells - by John Osborne, with Trevor Howard (1984/85) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Mozart in Japan - with Mitsuko Uchida (1986) available shortly at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Testimony - starring Ben Kingsley (1987)
Maria Callas (1987)
In From The Cold? - Richard Burton (1988)
Dvořak in Love? - with Julian Lloyd Webber (1988) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Hindemith - a Pilgrim's Progress - with John Gielgud (1989)
The Children - starring Kim Novak, Ben Kingsley, Geraldine Chaplin (1989) available on VHS
Menuhin, a Family Portrait (1990)
I, Berlioz - with Corin Redgrave (1992) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Symphony of Sorrowful Songs - Gòrecki (1993)
A Short Film About Loving - with Peter Sellars (1994)
England, my England - Henry Purcell, by John Osborne & Charles Wood; with Simon Callow and Michael Ball; music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner (1995)
Brahms and The Little Singing Girls - with Warren Mitchell (1996) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The fantastic World of Michael Crawford (1996) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Hail Bop! - a profile of John Adams (1997) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Parsifal - with Domingo & Gergiev (1997) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Harvest of Sorrow - Rachmaninoff, with the Kirov Opera (1998)
The Kindness of Strangers - André Previn (1998) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Valentina Igoshina plays Chopin (1999) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Strange Case of Delfina Potocka - Chopin, with Penelope Wilton (1999) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Foreign Aids - Pieter-Dirk Uys on tour (2001)
Ladies & Gentlemen, Miss Renée Fleming (2002) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Hero - The Story of Bobby Moore - produced by David Frost (2002)
Toward the Unknown Region - Malcolm Arnold. A Story of Survival (2003)
John Osborne and The Gift of Friendship (2003) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Ivry Gitlis and The Great Tradition (2004) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Adventures of Benjamin Schmid (2005) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Margot - Margot Fonteyn (2005)
The Salzburg Festival (2006)
O Thou Transcendent - The Life of Vaughan Williams (2007)
O, Fortuna! - Carl Orff & Carmina Burana (2008)
Vangelis and the Journey To Ithaka (2009) Re-edited by Vangelis, and disowned by TP
The Wagner Family (2010)
Holst - In The Bleak Midwinter (2011)
Wagner Boxset (2011) - 6 DVDs consisting of the Burton/Wagner epic, Domingo's Parsifal,
The Wagner Family, and a bonus disc Silent Wagner, the original 1912/13 silent biopic. available at www.tonypalmerdvd.comFalls the Shadow... - Athol Fugard (2012) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com Winner of the Gold Medal at the New York Film & TV Festival 2013
Britten at 100 Boxset (2012) - 4 DVDs available at www.benjamin-britten-dvd.com
Beware of Mr Baker (2012) - [as Executive Producer, Director Jay Bulger] Grand Jury Prize, SXSW Film Festival
Nocturne - Britten (2013) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com "I have rarely seen such a profoundly troubling film. Palmer is a master, and this is a masterpiece." SIMON HEFFER
Winner of the Gold Medal at the New York Film & TV FestivalGreat English Composers boxsets (2014) Italia Prize winning films available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Vol. 1: Vaughan Williams & Malcolm Arnold
Vol. 2: Britten & Handel
Vol. 3: Purcell & Britten's Festival
Vol. 4: Walton & HolstMusic Under The Nazis boxset (2014) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Wagner Family, Carl Orff & Hindemith - a Pilgrim's Progress
"Magnificent - like no other documentaries I have ever seen" Daily TelegraphSilent Wagner – now with the original 1913 music by Giuseppe Becce (2015) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Pursuit of Happiness (2015) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
includes Brighton Breezy, Shirley MacLaine & BirminghamThe Space Movie - music by Mike Oldfield (remastered 2015) Gold Medal, New York available as single DVD and DeLuxe box-set at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
The Beatles and World War II (2016) available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Bird On A Wire - with Leonard Cohen. Originally filmed in 1972; rescued & restored in 2010; now including the home movies (2016) Winner of the GRIERSON PRIZE 2011
Rachmaninoff – his letters, his home movies and his recordings (2017) DVD & CD available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Tangerine Dream in Coventry Cathedral (revised version) (2017) available as single DVD and DeLuxe box-set at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
Instruments of the Orchestra (2017) DVD & CD available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
BRITTEN box-set (2017) 6 DVDs + CD + booklet: Britten in his own Words available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
STRAVINSKY 50th anniversary box-set (2021) DVD + double CD + booklet: Stravinsky in his own Words available at www.tonypalmerdvd.com
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