Ken Russell Movies

A personal and nostalgic film about an apartment building in Bayswater, where Russell once lived, and about the residents who inhabited it. The...

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.

A man trapped in purgatory must come face to face with his own demons.

Also known as Guitar Craze and the more evocative Hound Dogs and Bach Addicts, this Monitor item (Ken Russell's third for the pioneering BBC arts...

A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

A short directed by Ken Russell.

A short musical directed by Ken Russell.

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.

Ken Russell revisits the location of his 1960 documentary about coal mining in Northumberland and catches up with some of the people who appeared in...

An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers...

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists...

In 1960, Ken Russell visited Bedlington Colliery, Northumberland to make one of his first documentary films, following life in the mining community.

Arrigo Boito's most known work is Il Mefestefele, first performed in 1868. Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese Opera has Faust...

On-set footage of the film The Devils (1971) with commentary by editor Mike Bradsell

A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.

Ken Russell's engrossing examination of the great 20th-century composer tells Williams' story through the eyes of his widow, Ursula, with personal...

Explores the worldview of A.W. Chesher, who has a special interest in painting steam traction engines.

A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.

Mrs Wilhelmina Sterling shows her vast collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings, pottery and other artefacts at her home in Battersea.

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, Ken Russell's musical delight takes viewers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar...