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 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.

TV Show

Ways of Seeing

1972

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Edward Said: The Last Interview

2004

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Typically British: A Personal History of British Cinema

1995

Movie

Appalachian Journey

1991

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Keith Jarrett: The Art of Improvisation

2004

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The Miles Davis Story

2001

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About Time

1985

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The Country and the City

1979