Ken Russell Movies

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

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

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

Far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue; it also serves as a calling card for Russell, whose work would define the 1970s as Delerue’s...

A short musical directed by Ken Russell.

Gangsters run rampant until they encounter a gutsy minister.

An illustration of various mechanical instruments, from the musical-box to 1950s electronica.

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.

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

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

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...

Scientist Joe Hartman introduces self-proclaimed Middle Eastern psychic Uri Geller to America.

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

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

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

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

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

A romance between a clumsy knight and a damsel in distress.

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

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...