Ken Russell Movies

Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love,...

Gangsters run rampant until they encounter a gutsy minister.

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

An exploration of composer Anton Bruckner's numeromania during a nervous breakdown and stay at a sanatorium.

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

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...

An actor is playing Claude Debussy in a film about the composer's life, and finds himself identifying with his subject very closely.

A feat that fully matches its title, an alphabetical trawl through both the history of British music and Russell's own likes and dislikes, the latter...

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...

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...

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...

Russell's composer biopics were usually labours of love. However, this was the opposite: Russell regarded the music of Richard Strauss 'bombastic,...

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

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 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...

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

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

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...

Subtitled 'Portrait of a Soviet Composer', this is the second of Ken Russell's composer biopics.

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