Ken Russell Movies

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

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an...

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...

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...

A deck-chair attendant at a British resort promotes a film festival featuring a French sexpot.

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

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

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...

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists...

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

An irreverent survey of British Music.

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

John Betjeman reminisces on Britain's great historical exhibitions since the 1870s: including Alexandra Palace, the Empire Exhibition at Wembley and...

Documentary shows Ken Russell at work on various BBC TV documentaries, with clips from Diary of a Nobody, The Debussy Film, Always on Sunday, Don't...

Ken Russell is often cited as one of the fathers of the music video, with Tommy (1975) widely recognised as one of the pivotal works in the...

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

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

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

Based on the famous Gustav Holst musical suite, this musical film takes watchers on a magnificent journey of the planets of the Solar System.