Ken Russell Movies

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their...

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

The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".

Hell on Earth is a documentary about Ken Russell's 1971 film, The Devils. Film critic Mark Kermode chats to Russell as well as two of the...

This biographical film of Czech composer Martinu is in two parts: the first part is a recurring dream; the second, a Freudian analysis of the dream.

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.

Four erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings: 'The Dutch Master': a woman who enters a living painting; 'The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch':...

A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.

Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.

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

A short directed by Ken Russell.

The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a...

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

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow of famed composer Kurt Weill) Lotte Lenya performing many of Weill's best known...

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the...

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

Documentary, based on a British poll, listing the 100 sexiest movie and TV moments. Supplemented by new interviews with performers, filmmakers, and...

A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.

Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...

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