Ken Russell Movies

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

Arrigo Boito's Il Mefestefele was first performed in 1868 and his most known work. In Ken Russell's modern interpretation presented by the Genoese...

A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

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

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BBC arts series Monitor.

Behind the scenes of the making of Ken Russell's 1971 film 'The Devils. Shown are the construction of the sets, filming of the courtroom scene, the...

The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original,...

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

Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love,...

A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by...

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...

The life of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and his numeromania.

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and...

Documentary by Ken Russell that shows Alice traveling through a century of Russian's history, from the period of Tsarism, through Socialism and...

The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.

Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.

The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and...