Movies: Michael Cockerell
- 2022
The Queen and Her Prime Ministers (2022)
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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 Prime Ministers, or what happens when they clash....
- 2010
How to Win the TV Debate (2010)
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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 part in these contests and how leaders try to win them. He tells the inside story of why it has taken so...
- 2001
Cabinet Confidential (2001)
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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 Thatcher and John Major - have run their cabinet, the highest decision-making body in the land. Through cand...
- 2007
How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister (2007)
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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 ex-PMs' club for a hundred years. The film reveals who left office bankrupt, who did TV commercials fo...
- 1998
How to Be Foreign Secretary (1998)
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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 current incumbent, and invites the viewer to imagine their life in the position....
- 2013
Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise (2013)
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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 you think of Johnson’s politics or predilections, the man is TV gold. In the name of journalistic objectiv...
- 1997
Labour's Old Romantic (1997)
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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 victory, and interviews with his wife, the filmmaker Jill Cragie, and some of his old colleagues and friends, i...
- 1996
How to Be Prime Minister (1996)
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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 hours are terrible, money so-so, job security non-existent. On the plus side, there's free accommodation ...
- 2003
Trust Me - I'm a Politician (2003)
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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 the 2001 general election, which was the lowest for more than 80 years. In this documentary, Michael...
- 2012
The Lost World of the Seventies (2012)
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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 new interviews, along with a treasure trove of rare archive, the film presents the inside story of gia...
- 2015
Denis Healey - The Best Prime Minister Labour Never Had? (2015)
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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 2015 aged 98...