Ken Russell Movies

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

Gangsters run rampant until they encounter a gutsy minister.

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

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

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

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

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

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

While most of Ken Russell's documentaries for the BBC's Monitor arts strand focused on a single creative figure, he would also occasionally make more...

Portrait of Spike Milligan, then part of The Goon Show examining his views on comedy,

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

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

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

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

A 'radical Brontë' ballet for young people.

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

A parable made in the manner of an old silent comedy about artistry and illusion.

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

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...

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