Sort by Number of Votes - Most Rated Movies and TV Shows With Roger Mills

1. Around the World in 80 Days (II) (1989)

49 min | Documentary

Michael Palin attempts to copy the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to travel around the world (without flying) in 80 days.

Stars: Michael Palin, Basil Pao, Chris Collins, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 1,930

2. Pole to Pole (1992– )

50 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael Palin undertakes a journey by the most direct route possible with the most land to cross from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Stars: Michael Palin, Neil Hardwick, Lasse Lehtinen, Graham Hancock

Votes: 1,430

3. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)

500 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael Palin embarks on another epic journey of exploration and adventure, this time 15,000 miles through 18 countries around the Pacific rim.

Stars: Michael Palin, Rob Hehnlin, Emily Symons, Norman Coburn

Votes: 1,274

4. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )

360 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels the Himalaya mountain region.

Stars: Michael Palin, The Dalai Lama

Votes: 1,217

5. Horizon (I) (1964– )

50 min | Documentary

British documentary series that covers a variety of subjects in science and philosophy.

Stars: Paul Vaughan, Jack Fortune, Dilly Barlow, Colin Riach

Votes: 1,149

6. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)

Documentary, History

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy.

Votes: 982

7. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )

50 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels across Sahara desert region, the largest in the world.

Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 879

8. New Europe (2007– )

50 min | Documentary

With the Iron Curtain coming down in 1991, Michael Palin embarks on 20 countries tour from Balkans to Baltic of Central and Eastern Europe.

Stars: Michael Palin, Sevval Sam, Ilie Nastase, Lech Walesa

Votes: 749

9. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )

60 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels around Brazil, from Amazonia to Rio, from the North East to the Deep South, to find out what makes this vast country tick.

Stars: Michael Palin, Susie Valerio, Carolina Ferraz, Davi Kopenawa

Votes: 378

10. Around the World in 20 Years (2008 TV Movie)

59 min | Documentary

Michael Palin attempts to emulate the exploits of fictional character Phileas Fogg, by trying to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days without flying .

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Mahesh Bhatt, Bill Nelson, Hassan Suleyman

Votes: 363

11. Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Episode: The Challenge (1989)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary

Actor and writer Michael Palin takes up the challenge to emulate Phileas Fogg's adventure.

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Max Votolato

Votes: 115

12. Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Episode: A Close Shave (1989)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary

Michael Palin and the crew arrive in Bombay one week behind schedule.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 112

13. Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Episode: Far East and Farther East (1989)

TV-PG | 49 min | Documentary

Ten days behind schedule, Michael Palin sets sail for Japan.

Directors: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance | Stars: Michael Palin, Basil Pao, David Powers

Votes: 108

14. Around the World in 80 Days (1989)
Episode: Dateline to Deadline (1989)

TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary

With 22 days to go, delays, misunderstandings and a bomb impede Michael Palin's journey.

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 105

15. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Cold Start (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Palin begins at the North Pole, flying there on a small aeroplane fitted with skis. From there, he heads to Greenland, then the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, where the towns of Ny ... See full summary »

Directors: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance | Stars: Michael Palin, Neil Hardwick, Lasse Lehtinen

Votes: 97

16. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Evil Shadow (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

In Zambia Palin meets a witch doctor who tells him that he has an "evil shadow" and bad things lie ahead for him. Palin then moves on to Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, where he goes ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 93

17. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Mediterranean Maze (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Arriving by ferry to Istanbul, Turkey, Palin stays at the Pera Palas, where Agatha Christie wrote Murder on the Orient Express and experiences a turkish bath, getting the full treatment ... See full summary »

Directors: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 93

18. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Russian Steps (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Palin meets up with a Vladimir Lenin impersonator, witnesses a Russian Orthodox baptism ceremony, visits the cemetery where the likes of Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 93

19. Pole to Pole (1992– )
Episode: Crossing the Line (1992)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

In the old Ethiopian capital of Gondar Palin visits the former home of Emperor Haile Selassie, as well as his pet lion. After a couple of hitchhiking rides he arrives at the Kenya border. ... See full summary »

Directors: Roger Mills, Clem Vallance | Stars: Michael Palin, Graham Hancock

Votes: 92

20. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode: Alaska/Russia (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

From Diomede Island to Alaska then across to Kamchatka peninsula which is one of the scenic highlights of this series. From there to Vladivostok.

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Rob Hehnlin

Votes: 79

21. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode: Australia/New Zealand (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael starts in Darwin and then on to Katherine, Alice Springs, Adelaide, Sydney and then on to New Zealand.

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Norman Coburn, Emily Symons

Votes: 77

22. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode: Chile/Bolivia (1997)

48 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael picks up in South America at Cape Horn and then as he travels up the coast of Chile, visits some islands off the coast and on into the Atacama Desert and by a very interesting train to Bolivia.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 76

23. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode: Mexico/Western USA/Canada/Alaska (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael starts in Mexico City, looks at the Mexico/US border from both sides and then visits LA and San Francisco before heading into Canada and hitting a final disappointment.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 75

24. Full Circle with Michael Palin (1997)
Episode: Vietnam/Philippines (1997)

49 min | Adventure, Documentary

Michael sees Hanoi, Da Nang, Hue, the Mekong Delta, Saigon and then on to the Philippines including Manila, Zamboanga and faith healers.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 75

25. Inside Story (1974– )
Episode: Mini (1975)

44 min | Documentary

Michael 'Mini' Cooper is a child who cannot stop setting fire to things. The young arsonist has been deemed not safe to be out in society, and the hunt is on for a suitable institution.

Director: Franc Roddam | Star: Michael Cooper

Votes: 75

26. Whicker's World (1959–1994)

Documentary

Renowned journalist John Whicker travels the globe, uncovering unique cultural, historical, and social stories in witty and insightful episodes.

Stars: Alan Whicker, Robert Arnott, Patrick Lichfield, Christopher Lee

Votes: 52

27. Michael Palin: A Life on Screen (2018 TV Movie)

Documentary

Add a Plot

Director: Samantha Peters | Stars: Connie Booth, John Cleese, Angela Elbourne, Terry Gilliam

Votes: 52

28. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: North by Northwest (2004)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary

Beginning at the Khyber Pass, Michael Palin takes the Khyber steam railway through the North-West Frontier Province, home of the Pathan people, a fierce race who live by the philosophy of hospitality and revenge.

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 48

29. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part One: 1985-1989 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

Perestroika. The dream of saving communism. But no-one believes in anything any longer. The managers loot the system. Soldiers return defeated in the war to liberate Afghanistan. Includes ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 48

30. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: A Passage to India (2004)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

Michael Palin has reached the second highest mountain in the world, K2 (8,611m), but there is no passage to India here. A high-level stand-off between the Pakistani and Indian armies means ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, The Dalai Lama

Votes: 43

31. New Europe (2007– )
Episode: From Pole to Pole (2007)

54 min | Documentary

Michael Palin tours Poland only: From seaport Gdansk where Lech Walesa and his Solidarity movement in 1989 lead to the Fall of USSR; to the capital Warsaw; to the Renaissance Old Town and ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Stars: Michael Palin, Lech Walesa

Votes: 39

32. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: Annapurna to Everest (2004)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

Michael hikes the Himalaya foothills in Nepal.

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 39

33. New Europe (2007– )
Episode: Danube to Dnieper (2007)

55 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels Hungary and Ukraine. He tours thru Hungary's Capital, Budapest, incl'd cathedral, old headquarters of Nazi and Communist, and Zwarck Unicum winery; then Tokaji Aszú ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 38

34. New Europe (2007– )
Episode: Baltic Summer (2007)

55 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels thru Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, to Kaliningrad, the only Russia oblast (state) in the European Sea. From Estonia capital, Tallinn to Latvia capital Riga to Lithuania ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 38

35. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part Two: 1989-1991 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

There are no potatoes in Moscow. Things get worse. Then they get much worse as the rational Communist plan runs out of control everywhere. But McDonald's opens in Moscow.

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 38

36. A Change of Sex (1980–1999)

55 min | Documentary, Biography

Ground-breaking BBC series that follows transgender activist Julia Grant from her first year living as a woman to her experience of gender reassignment surgery and beyond.

Stars: Julia Grant, John Bulmer Randell, Shirley Wilson, Michael Royale

Votes: 37

37. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part Three: 1991 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

The empire strikes back. The hardliners bring tanks to Moscow. But power slips through their shaking hands. The Oligarchs publish their manifesto for the future. Money will replace all ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 34

38. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode: Out of Africa (2012)

TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary

Michael Palin starts his visit of Brazil, the last subcontinent he never visited, in the populous North east, where its colonial history started. It remains the most African and racially ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Michael Palin, Susie Valerio

Votes: 34

39. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: Bhutan to the Bay of Bengal (2004)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

In the remote Kingdom of Bhutan, Michael Palin finds himself back in the land of yaks for a last look at the high Himalaya. Passing Tiger's Nest Monastery, Michael treks towards the Base ... See full summary »

Directors: John-Paul Davidson, Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 33

40. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: Leaping Tigers, Naked Nagas (2004)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

Following the Yangtze River along Tiger Leaping Gorge into Yunnan in South West China, Michael Palin reaches the easternmost end of the Himalayas. At Lugu Lake he is the guest of the ... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 33

41. Himalaya with Michael Palin (2004– )
Episode: The Roof of the World (2004)

TV-PG | 56 min | Documentary

Leaving Everest Base Camp,Michael Palin takes the high road to Lhasa to see for himself what the Chinese have done to Tibet. From the Potala Palace to the great monasteries of Tashilunpo ... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 33

42. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part Four: 1992-1994 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

Russia goes through the mirror. There is a new plan to create democracy overnight. Those in charge say it is rational. What it creates is a terrifying dream world where nothing is stable ... See full summary »

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 33

43. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )
Episode: A Line in the Sand (2002)

60 min | Documentary

Michael Palin travels Gibraltar; Morocco; Algeria/Western Sahara; then Mauritania: Gibraltar; Tangier (Euro-Arabic city), Fez (perfect Islamic City, 1200 yr old garment/skin dye industry), ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Mills | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 32

44. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part Seven: 1995-1999 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

A massive boom spreads through Moscow. It seems that capitalism has arrived. But suddenly the western bankers flee taking the money with them. The Oligarchs take control of a ruined society... See full summary »

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 32

45. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode: Into Amazonia (2012)

TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary

Michael proceeds to Brazil's young interior, the Amazon jungle states, land of pioneers and promising future, but harsh present. He visits two native tribes, the famous Yanomani, who grew ... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Stars: Michael Palin, Gaby Amarantos, Priscilla Brasil, Thiago Castanho

Votes: 32

46. Brazil with Michael Palin (2012– )
Episode: The Road to Rio (2012)

TV-PG | 57 min | Documentary

Palin starts this leg of the journey in the mineral-rich state of Minas Gerais. He visits an old gold mine once owned by the British, before going to see a vast opencast iron ore mine. He ... See full summary »

Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: Michael Palin, Icaro Raimundo Ferreira de Freitas, Luke Dowdney, Priscilla Ann Goslin

Votes: 32

47. Forty Minutes (1981–1994)

40 min | Documentary

Documentaries on any possible subject, the only connection being that they last forty minutes.

Stars: John Pitman, Michael Dean, Lucinda Lambton, Roger Mills

Votes: 31

48. Inside Story (1974– )

60 min | Documentary

A BBC documentary film strand, with the focus on investigative journalism.

Stars: Roger Mills, Tom Bower, Christopher Olgiati, Peter Taylor

Votes: 31

49. Sahara with Michael Palin (2002– )
Episode: Destination Timbuktu (2002)

60 min | Documentary

Michael Palin crosses the Sénégal River from Rosso, Mauritania to Saint-Louis "French port", Gorée Island "Slavery port", to Dakar "capital" in Senegal. He takes the Bamako Express train to... See full summary »

Director: John-Paul Davidson | Star: Michael Palin

Votes: 31

50. Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone (2022)
Episode: Part Five: 1993-1996 (2022)

59 min | Documentary, History

Russian society implodes and millions of Russian people fall into the abyss. Many turn to live underground or in the forests. The president attacks parliament with tanks saying he is saving... See full summary »

Director: Adam Curtis

Votes: 31