Michael Cockerell Movies

  • 2022
    The Queen and Her Prime Ministers

    The Queen and Her Prime Ministers

    The Queen and Her Prime Ministers

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    Queen Elizabeth has worked with 14 Prime Ministers, including holding confidential weekly meetings. It is not known whether she has influenced her...

    The Queen and Her Prime Ministers
  • 2003
    Trust Me - I'm a Politician

    Trust Me - I'm a Politician

    Trust Me - I'm a Politician

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    Last December's "Cheriegate" affair did little to abate the rampant public cynicism reserved for politicians - a mistrust evidenced in the turnout at...

    Trust Me - I'm a Politician
  • 2010
    How to Win the TV Debate

    How to Win the TV Debate

    How to Win the TV Debate

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    With Britain's first-ever political leaders' television debate imminent, award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers what it's like to take...

    How to Win the TV Debate
  • 2012
    The Lost World of the Seventies

    The Lost World of the Seventies

    The Lost World of the Seventies

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    Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most controversial characters. With fresh filming and...

    The Lost World of the Seventies
  • 1997
    Labour's Old Romantic

    Labour's Old Romantic

    Labour's Old Romantic

    01997HD

    A profile of Michael Foot, the former leader of the Labour Party, which included footage of him on the night of Tony Blair’s historic 1997...

    Labour's Old Romantic
  • 2007
    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

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    Michael Cockerell tells the story of how prime ministers have coped with life after Number Ten, after Tony Blair became the youngest member of the...

    How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
  • 1970
    Blair: The Inside Story

    Blair: The Inside Story

    Blair: The Inside Story

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    Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet...

    Blair: The Inside Story
  • 2013
    Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise

    Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise

    Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise

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    It was the exact same effect induced by Michael Cockerell’s film Boris Johnson: the Irresistible Rise last night on BBC Two. Regardless of what...

    Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise
  • 1998
    How to Be Foreign Secretary

    How to Be Foreign Secretary

    How to Be Foreign Secretary

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    Michael Cockerell talks to all of the surviving people to hold the post of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs including the...

    How to Be Foreign Secretary
  • 1996
    How to Be Prime Minister

    How to Be Prime Minister

    How to Be Prime Minister

    01996HD

    It begins with cheers but almost always ends in tears. Yet, as the election looms, competition for the top job grows ever more intense. Why? The...

    How to Be Prime Minister
  • 2001
    Cabinet Confidential

    Cabinet Confidential

    Cabinet Confidential

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    A revealing one-off documentary that provides an inside view of how Tony Blair and former prime ministers - including Harold Wilson, Margaret...

    Cabinet Confidential
  • 2015
    Denis Healey - The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?

    Denis Healey - The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?

    Denis Healey - The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?

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    Political journalist and film-maker Michael Cockerell's intimate portrait of Denis Healey, former chancellor of the exchequer, who died on 3 October...

    Denis Healey - The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had?
  • 1995
    Westminster's Secret Service

    Westminster's Secret Service

    Westminster's Secret Service

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    Whips pride themselves on their secrecy and discretion. Reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers their shadowy world and reveals how they operate. How...

    Westminster's Secret Service
  • 2004
    The Downing Street Patient

    The Downing Street Patient

    The Downing Street Patient

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    Michael Cockerell presents this documentary on the health problems of Britain's Prime Ministers.

    The Downing Street Patient