Michael Cockerell

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Labour's Old Romantic
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Labour's Old Romantic

Jul 19, 1997

Labour's Old Romantic
1997 50 min 1 vues
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, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.
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Cabinet Confidential
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Cabinet Confidential

Nov 17, 2001

Cabinet Confidential
2001 60 min 1 vues
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 candid interviews, rare archive footage and filming inside No 10, presenter Michael Cockerell opens the door to the Government's own chamber of secrets as he seeks the answer to the question: is the notion of cabinet government an obsolete concept?
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How to Be Prime Minister
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How to Be Prime Minister

Sep 22, 1996

How to Be Prime Minister
1996 49 min 1 vues
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 in central London and probably more power over your country than any other leader in the western world. With the help of the present and previous incumbents, Michael Cockerell offers the first "how to" guide to the job of prime minister.
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How to Be Foreign Secretary
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How to Be Foreign Secretary

Jan 04, 1998

How to Be Foreign Secretary
1998 50 min 1 vues
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.
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician
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Trust Me - I'm a Politician

Feb 08, 2003

Trust Me - I'm a Politician
2003 60 min 1 vues
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 Cockerell talks to figures including Edwina Currie, Max Clifford, Geoffrey Robinson and Neil Hamilton in an effort to see if spin, sleaze and ministerial failure is to blame, or whether the media's sneering political coverage is most at fault.
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How to Win the TV Debate
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How to Win the TV Debate

Apr 12, 2010

How to Win the TV Debate
2010 60 min 1 vues
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 long for such debates to arrive in the UK. The programme features candid interviews with US Presidents and their advisers on the tricks of the debate trade. Blending new film and behind-the-scenes footage, some never seen before, it's a tragicomic tale of high politics and low cunning. From John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon through to Barack Obama, candidates are seen being prepared for their debates, then in the sometimes funny, sometimes disastrous results on live television. Cockerell shows why for our would-be next Prime Ministers - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg - the three debate stages across Britain will be what one former US President calls 'Tension City'.
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How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
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How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister

Jun 24, 2007

How to Be an Ex-Prime Minister
2007 56 min 1 vues
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 for Cheshire cheese, who had his own chat show and who has never had a single happy day since leaving Number Ten. Cockerell, who met the eight PMs prior to Blair, looks at what Tony planned do next and just how many millions he could make from being an ex-PM.
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Downing Street, au service de Sa Majesté ?
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Downing Street, au service de Sa Majesté ?

May 22, 2022

Downing Street, au service de Sa Majesté ?
2022 137 min 3 vues
Même si le Royaume-Uni a depuis des siècles une monarchie parlementaire et que le pouvoir royal reste fort limité, chaque Premier ministre est tenu de faire chaque semaine un rapport à Buckingham Palace. Le pays et ses citoyens ont bien changé en soixante-dix ans, mais certaines traditions restent immuables. Des secrétaires privés de la reine, des familiers des us et des coutumes de la Cour comme des locataires temporaires du 10 Downing Street expliquent les rouages d'un microsme unique au monde.
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Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise
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Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise

Mar 23, 2013

Boris Johnson: The Irresistible Rise
2013 60 min 1 vues
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 objectivity Cockerell’s film dutifully included musings from Boris’s sister Rachel, his father Stanley, former editors and school chums. Some of it was moderately revealing, but the money shot was the blond bombshell, live and unleashed.
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Blair: The Inside Story
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Blair: The Inside Story

Jan 01, 1970

Blair: The Inside Story
1970 177 min 1 vues
Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet colleagues and rivals cast new light on key events and on the Prime Minister's complex character.
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The Lost World of the Seventies
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The Lost World of the Seventies

May 13, 2012

The Lost World of the Seventies
2012 60 min 1 vues
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 giant personalities who make today's public figures look sadly dull in comparison. The well-known journalist revisits some of his films on the big characters who helped shaped the 1970s in Britain. Both tragic and comic, it highlights just how much our world has changed in four decades.
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Westminster's Secret Service
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Westminster's Secret Service

May 21, 1995

Westminster's Secret Service
1995 60 min 1 vues
Whips pride themselves on their secrecy and discretion. Reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers their shadowy world and reveals how they operate. How close to reality is the fictional Chief Whip Francis Urquhart, in the drama series House of Cards? Government Whips can make or break ministers and ensure they know all the secrets of the private lives of their fellow MPs. One Tory MP claims that the Whips are a gestapo, but another says they are democracy's unsung heroes - as necessary for Parliament as sewers are for civilisation.
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How to Win the TV Debate
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How to Win the TV Debate

Apr 12, 2010

How to Win the TV Debate
2010 60 min 1 vues
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 long for such debates to arrive in the UK. The programme features candid interviews with US Presidents and their advisers on the tricks of the debate trade. Blending new film and behind-the-scenes footage, some never seen before, it's a tragicomic tale of high politics and low cunning. From John F Kennedy and Richard Nixon through to Barack Obama, candidates are seen being prepared for their debates, then in the sometimes funny, sometimes disastrous results on live television. Cockerell shows why for our would-be next Prime Ministers - Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg - the three debate stages across Britain will be what one former US President calls 'Tension City'.
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Labour's Old Romantic
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Labour's Old Romantic

Jul 19, 1997

Labour's Old Romantic
1997 50 min 1 vues
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, including Barbara Castle, Spike Milligan and Salman Rushdie.
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Blair: The Inside Story
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Blair: The Inside Story

Jan 01, 1970

Blair: The Inside Story
1970 177 min 1 vues
Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet colleagues and rivals cast new light on key events and on the Prime Minister's complex character.
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Timewatch
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Timewatch

Nov 15, 2011

Timewatch
2011 min 7 vues
Timewatch is a long-running British television series showing documentaries on historical subjects, spanning all human history. It was first broadcast on 29 September 1982 and is produced by the BBC, the Timewatch brandname is used as a banner title in the UK, but many of the individual documentaries can be found on US cable channels without the branding.
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The Great Offices of State
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The Great Offices of State

Feb 25, 2010

The Great Offices of State
2010 min 1 vues
Three-part series in which award-winning reporter Michael Cockerell uncovers the secret world of Whitehall, showing what the trio of great offices - Home, Foreign and Treasury - are really like.
Blair: The Inside Story
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Blair: The Inside Story

Mar 30, 2007

Blair: The Inside Story
2007 min 1 vues
Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet colleagues and rivals cast new light on key events and on the Prime Minister's complex character.
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The Secret World of Whitehall
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The Secret World of Whitehall

Mar 30, 2007

The Secret World of Whitehall
2007 min 1 vues
Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet colleagues and rivals cast new light on key events and on the Prime Minister's complex character.
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The Secret World of Whitehall
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The Secret World of Whitehall

Mar 30, 2007

The Secret World of Whitehall
2007 min 1 vues
Michael Cockerell tells the inside story of Tony Blair's controversial ten years at the top. Candid interviews with Downing Street insiders, Cabinet colleagues and rivals cast new light on key events and on the Prime Minister's complex character.
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