<P> In 1988, the ABC and the BBC co-produced The Four Minute Mile, a miniseries dramatisation of the race to the four - minute mile, featuring Richard Huw as Bannister and Nique Needles as John Landy (who was simultaneously pursuing the milestone). It was written by David Williamson and directed by Jim Goddard . </P> <P> In 2004, Neal Bascomb wrote a book entitled The Perfect Mile about Roger Bannister, John Landy, and Wes Santee, portraying their individual attempts to break the four - minute mile and the context of the sport of mile racing . A second film version (entitled Four Minutes) was made in 2005, starring Jamie Maclachlan as Bannister . </P> <P> In June 2011 the watch used to time the original event was donated by Jeffrey Archer to a charity auction for Oxford University Athletics Club; it sold for £ 97,250 . </P> <P> In July 2016 the BBC broadcast the documentary Bannister: Everest on the Track, The Roger Bannister Story with firsthand interviews from Bannister and various other figures on the first sub-4 minute mile . </P>

Who has run the mile under 4 minutes