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Around the World with Orson Welles

Around the World with Orson Welles

Around the World with Orson Welles

1955 1 Seasons 7 Episodes ⭐ 7.1 Documentary

A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.

A six-part British television travel series written, directed, and presented by Orson Welles for ITV in 1955. Filmed entirely in Europe, the series follows Welles through Vienna, the Basque Country, Madrid, Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and London’s Chelsea Pensioners, blending travelogue, cultural portraiture, and personal essay. Moving between documentary observation and reflective commentary, the episodes combine interviews, local history, and Welles’s distinctive narration into a series that functions as both travel film and cinematic essay.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Pays Basque I: The Basque Countries

Welles takes the viewer to the Basque countryside, a remote corner of Europe on the border of Spain and France. He inter

EP 2

Pays Basque II: La Pelote Basque

Welles continues his tour of the Basque region of France and Spain and learns about the game of pelota and some of its v

EP 3

Revisiting Vienna

Welles revisits Vienna, the setting of one of his most famous films, and one of his greatest performances as the unforge

EP 4

Saint-Germain-des-Pres

Welles travels to Paris, where his visit to the Saint Germain des Pres neighborhood is chronicled by newspaper columnist

EP 5

London: The Queen's Pensioners

Welles travels to London to visit an alms house in Hackney for indigent widows created in the 1600s and an old soldier's

EP 6

Spain: The Bullfight

Welles and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Tynan travel to Madrid to explain the nuts and bolts of bullfighting.

EP 7

France: The Tragedy of Lurs

The Dominici affair is a criminal case that occurred in France in the mid-20th century, which gave rise to detailed coun

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Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Host: Orson Welles