Ken Russell Filmes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

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

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...

Russell’s composer biopics were usually labours of love. This was the opposite: he regarded Strauss’s music as 'bombastic, sham and...

A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.

Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.

Short documentary about Shelagh Delaney and her hometown Salford.

A study of Antoni Gaudí's architecture (especially the Church of the Holy Trinity in Barcelona), his sources of inspiration and his influence...

Pop Goes the Easel was Ken Russell’s first full-length documentary for the BBC’s arts series Monitor. It focused on 4 British Pop Artists...

Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

The life of Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and his numeromania.

An irreverent survey of British Music.