The BEST episodes directed by Tony Palmer
#1 - Hero: The Bobby Moore Story
BBC Documentaries - Season 2010 - Episode 54
Moving and inspiring film telling the story of Bobby Moore, who has passed into football legend as the captain who led England to its only World Cup victory in 1966.
#2 - Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
BBC Documentaries - Season 2011 - Episode 87
The first ever full-length film about Gustav Holst, composer and revolutionary - a man who taught himself Sanskrit; lived in a street of brothels in Algiers; cycled into the Sahara Desert; allied himself during the First World War with a 'red priest' who pinned on the door of his church 'prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression'; hated the words used to his most famous tune, I Vow to Thee My Country, because it was the opposite of what he believed; and distributed a newspaper called the Socialist Worker. Holst's music - especially the Planets - owed little or nothing to anyone, least of all the English folk song tradition, but he was a great composer who died of cancer, broken and disillusioned, before he was 60
#3 - Menuhin: A Family Portrait
American Masters - Season 6 - Episode 6
The story of an American violin virtuoso, Yehudi Menuhin.