| Movie | 2021 | Tom Stoppard: A Charmed Life | Presenter | |
| Movie | 2018 | Hockney, The Queen and the Royal Peculiar | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Art World's Prankster: Maurizio Cattelan | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | The Triumphs and Laments of William Kentridge | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Zaha Hadid... Who Dares Wins | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2015 | Antony Gormley: Being Human | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2017 | Margaret Atwood: You Have Been Warned | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Mel Brooks Strikes Back! | Self | |
| Movie | 2022 | imagine... Miriam Margolyes: Up for Grabs | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2022 | Jacob Collier: In the Room Where It Happens | | |
| Movie | 2022 | Labi Siffre: This Is My Song | | |
| Movie | N/A | A Kick in the Head: The Lure of Las Vegas | Self | |
| Movie | 2023 | imagine… Russell T Davies: The Doctor and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 2023 | imagine... The Factory: Made in Manchester | Self - presenter | |
| Movie | 2023 | imagine... French & Saunders: Pointed, Bitchy, Bitter | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2009 | Scrabble: A Night on the Tiles | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Grayson Perry and the Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman | Self | |
| Movie | 2011 | Books: The Last Chapter? | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Ian Rankin and the Case of the Disappearing Detective | Self | |
| Movie | 2004 | Arthur Miller: Finishing the Picture | Self | |
| Movie | 2013 | Turning the Art World Inside Out | | |
| Movie | 2003 | The World According to Parr | Self - Prsenter | |
| Movie | 2007 | How to Get on in the Art World | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2008 | A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami | Self | |
| Movie | 2015 | Shylock's Ghost | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Mini: A Life Revisited | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2024 | Imagine… Pet Shop Boys: Then and Now | Self - Interviewer | |
| Movie | 2008 | Richard Serra: Man of Steel | Presenter | |
| Movie | 2024 | Salman Rushdie: Through a Glass Darkly | Self - Interviewer | |
| Movie | 2019 | Faith Ringgold: Tell It Like It Is | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Goodbye Television Centre | Self - Reporter | |
| Movie | 2016 | One Night In 2012 | | |
| Movie | 2016 | A Brief History of Seven Killings Marlon James | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 1982 | Mike Leigh: Making Plays | Self - Narrator, Interviewer | |
| Movie | 2014 | The One and Only Mike Leigh | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2005 | Fantastic Mr. Dahl | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2017 | Rachel Whiteread: Ghost in the Room | Self | |
| Movie | 2008 | Oliver Sacks: Tales of Music and the Brain | Presenter | |
| Movie | 2006 | A Picture of the Painter Howard Hodgkin | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Hitler, the Tiger and Me | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2014 | Monty Python: And Now for Something Rather Similar | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2015 | Frank Gehry: The Architect Says "Why Can't I?" | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2016 | Georgia O'Keeffe: By Myself | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2018 | Mel Brooks: Unwrapped | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2019 | Jo Brand: No Holds Barred | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2015 | David Chipperfield: A Place to Be | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Year of Anish Kapoor | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2014 | BBC Imagine: The Divine Miss M | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Edna O'Brien: Fearful... and Fearless | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Vivian Maier: Who Took Nanny's Pictures? | Self | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Seven Year Hitch | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Olafur Eliasson: Miracles of Rare Device | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2010 | Ray Davies: Imaginary Man | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2018 | Philip Pullman: Angels and Daemons | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Weird World of Eadweard Muybridge | Presenter | |
| Movie | 2014 | Rio 50 Degrees: Carry on CaRIOca | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2020 | Marina Abramovic: The Ugly Duckling | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2006 | Sweet Home New Orleans | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2013 | Who's Afraid of Machiavelli? | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2021 | Kazuo Ishiguro: Remembering and Forgetting | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2010 | Van Gogh: Painted with Words | Self - Narrator | |
| Movie | 2012 | Jeanette Winterson: My Monster and Me | Self | |
| Movie | 2025 | The Academy of Armando | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2025 | When Alan Yentob Met Jenny Saville | Self | |
| Movie | 2007 | Gilbert and George: No Surrender | Self | |
| Movie | 2014 | Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2018 | George Benjamin: What Do You Want to Do When You Grow Up? | Self - Presenter | |
| Movie | 2011 | The Trouble with Tolstoy | | |
| Movie | 2007 | Imagine... Damon & Jamie's Excellent Adventure | Self - Presenter | |
| TV Show | 1997 | Operation Good Guys | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | The Story Of The Guitar | | 3 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Behind The Screen | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Live from Studio Five | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1986 | Open Air | | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Timeshift | Self - Controller, BBC Two (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Narrator | 1 |
| TV Show | 2008 | Beautiful People | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | imagine… | Self - Presenter | 339 |
| TV Show | 2014 | W1A | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Ideal | Alan Yentob | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | In Conversation with Alan Yentob | Self | 2 |
| TV Show | 2020 | Mandy | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1996 | Never Mind the Buzzcocks | Self - Narrator | 1 |
| TV Show | 2022 | Remembers… | Self | 3 |
