Ken Russell Movies

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

Video promo for Pandora's Box: It's All Coming Back to Me Now

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...

About modern day pilgrims to Lourdes, France, and Our Lady of Lourdes, that brings out the religious hysteria and the commercialism of the alleged...

South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.

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

The work of professional photographer David Hurn, shown tackling a wide range of subjects from fashion to photojournalism to candid paparazzo shots.

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

A short musical directed by Ken Russell.

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.