Ken Russell Movies

Famed composer Gustav Mahler reflects on the tragedies of his life and failing marriage while traveling by train.

The true story of a man who posed as director Stanley Kubrick during the production of Kubrick's last film, Eyes Wide Shut, despite knowing very...

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury...

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple...

Twiggy takes a comprehensive look at the life story of UK model and cultural icon Twiggy, real name Lesley Lawson, whose career kickstarted in the...

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

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

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

A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.

Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their...

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

The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which...

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...

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

This trio of tales, based on classic short stories, chronicles the complicated relations between the sexes.

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 outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".

An irreverent survey of British Music.

Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by...

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.