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.

This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Ken Russell directed a short document of German actress (and widow) of famed composer Kurt Weill performing many of his best known compositions for...

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

Prokofiev (BBC, tx. 18/6/1961), subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', was the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics, though it takes a rather...

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

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

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

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

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...

A young girl (Amelia) is distressed and feeling guilty about losing the wings she was to wear in her school play. Then she notices an angel and...

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

A writer taking a rest in a country hotel is obsessed with a strange woman in the same hotel. The woman seems to observe him in provocative ways, but...

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

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