Ken Russell Movies

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...

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

A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of contract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version...

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

Moving with astonishing assurance through time and space, Russell recreates his life in a series of unconventional interconnected episodes –...

A plucky young Jewish boy traverses the globe on a quest to warm the Führer's heart with the gift of a cuddly feline. (The result of a challenge...

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

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

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

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

Filmmaker Ken Russell poses the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an indifferent response from...

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.

A short directed by Ken Russell.

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

A double portrait of the painters Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, seen at work in their Suffolk studio while discussing their paintings.

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...

In his hometown of Southampton, Ken Russell takes his young son and his aunts out to dinner, but the new traffic restrictions mean he can't get near...

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

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

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...