John Berger in Ways of Seeing (1972) © BBC Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis

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Documentaries conceived and presented by John Berger:

• John Berger started to work for Granada TV in April 1958 and then later for BBC with Mike Dibb in the 1960’s. They proposed short documentaries about Giacometti, Friso Ten Holt, Picasso, Léger, Ernst Neisvestny, De Stijl, Facteur Cheval…
• Ways of Seeing (1972 directed by Mike Dibb, Sven Blomberg, Chris Fox and Richard Hollis)
• Germinal (1972, produced by Nuala O’Faolain)
• Omnibus : Pig Earth (1979 directed by Mike Dibb)
• Omnibus : Parting shots from animals (1980 directed by Mike Dibb and Christopher Rawlence)
• About Time : Once upon a time (1985 directed by Mike Dibb and Christopher Rawlence)
• Another Way of Telling: Views of Photography (1989 Directed by John Christie)

Fiction films written by John Berger:

• The Salamander (1971 directed by Alain Tanner)
• The Middle of the World (1974 directed by Alain Tanner)
• Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000 (1976 directed by Alain Tanner)
• Walk Me Home (1993 directed by Timothy Neat, scenario by John Berger and Nella Bielski) John Berger plays William

John Berger in Play Me Something (1989) © Timothy Neat

Adaptations from John Berger’s books

• A Fortunate Man (1972 directed by Jeff Perks, with Michael Bryant) based on A Fortunate Man (1967)
• A Sheperd’s Homecoming (1996 directed by Alain Tanner) based on A Seventh Man (1975)
• L’Écho (1986 by Maurice Failevic, with Serge Reggiani and Annick Brard) based on «The Time of the Cosmonauts» short story from Once In Europa (1986)
• Play Me Something (1989 directed by Timothy Neat) based on «Play Me Something» short story from Once In Europa (1986). John Berger plays the storyteller.

1984 Les Charmettes alpage, John Berger and Serge Reggiani, the main actor in L’Écho (1989), during filming. © Jean Mohr

Other films collaborations

• A City at Chandigarh (1966 directed by Allen Moore and Lou Werner)
• Vermeer : Light, Love and Silence (1996 directed by Michael Gill)
• The Spectre of Hope (2000 directed by Paul Carlin, with Sebastiào Salgado)
• His Name Is Tyler (2001 directed by Paul Carlin)
• I Send You this Cadmium Red (2002 directed by John Christie, based from John Christie and John Berger’s book)
• 12 August 2002 (2002 directed by Milena Trivier) with John Berger’s voice
• Arrows of Time (2007 directed by Ken McMullen)
• Walter, retour en résistance (documentary 2008 directed by Gilles Perret)
• Taskafa, Stories from the street (2013 directed by Andrea Luka Zimmerman) with John Berger’s voice
• The New Man (2017 directed by Josh Appignanesi and Devorah Baum)

Documentaries films about John Berger

• A Telling Eye: The Work of John Berger (1994 directed by Mike Dibb)
• John Berger Or The Art of Looking (2017 directed by Cordelia Dvorák)
• The Seasons in Quincy : four portraits of John Berger (2016 directed by Bartek Dziadosz, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth and Tilda Swinton)

Short programs about John Berger

• John received in 2002 Lannan Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement. At this occasion, Lannan Foundation made a series of videos about John : interviews, lectures, talks with Michael Silverblatt, Michael Govan and Michael Ondaatje.
• Here and Now (2016 directed by Camille Chenay)
• Une Amitié géniale – Alain Tanner et John Berger (2021 directed by David Wegmüller for Filmo)