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Mike Dibb
Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subj…
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Mike Dibb (born Wharfedale, Bradford, West Yorkshire, 29 April 1940) is an English documentary filmmaker. In almost half a century of making films mainly for television – on subjects including cinema, literature, art, jazz, sport and popular culture – "he has defined and re-defined not only the televisual art documentary genre but has been able to make moving image pieces as a form of self portraiture". Dibb has made many acclaimed films, including on Federico García Lorca, C. L. R. James, Astor Piazzolla, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, Barbara Thompson and other notable subjects. In the words of Sukhdev Sandhu in The Guardian: "In a career spanning almost five decades, it's possible Dibb has shaped more ideas and offered more ways of seeing than any other TV documentarian of his generation." Mike Dibb is the father of film director Saul Dibb.
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2016
John Berger or The Art of Looking
Movie Self
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2012
Barbara Thompson: Playing Against Time
Movie Writer
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2009
Personally Speaking: A Long Conversation with Stuart Hall
Movie Director
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2004
Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation
Movie Director
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2004
Edward Said: The Last Interview
Movie Director
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2001
The Miles Davis Story
Movie Director
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2000
The Beginning of the End of the Affair
Movie Director
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1995
Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema
Movie Director
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1995
The Further Adventures of Don Quixote
Movie Director
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1994
A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger
Movie Director
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1991
Appalachian Journey
Movie Producer
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1990
American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
TV show Director
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1986
The Spirit of Lorca
Movie Director
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1985
Studs Terkel's Chicago
Movie Director
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1985
About Time
Movie Director
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1984
CLR James Talking to Stuart Hall
Movie Director
More credits
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1980
Parting Shots from Animals
Movie Director
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1979
Pig Earth
Movie Director
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1979
The Country and the City
Movie Director
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1976
Beyond a Boundary
Movie Producer
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1973
Paul Newman
Movie Producer
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1972
Bette Davis
Movie Director
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1972
Kirk Douglas
Movie Producer
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1972
Ways of Seeing
TV show Producer
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1968
One to One: Jean-Luc Godard Speaks
Movie Director
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1967
The Nomad
Movie Director
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Rex Harrison at the N.F.T.
Movie Director
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The Making of Jean Luc Godard's 'One Plus One'
Movie Director
