Ken Russell Movies

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

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

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

Born to a rich landowner in the waning days of the Victorian era, Ursula Brangwen grows into a beautiful young woman full of imagination and...

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

Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time for aggravated assault....

In the 1970s a music promoter plucks Siamese twins from obscurity and grooms them into a freakish rock'n'roll act. A dark tale of sex, strangeness...

France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscure political maneuvers that led to the...

The story of the influential 19th century British poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his troubled and somewhat morbid relationship with his wife and his...

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

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...

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

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

The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.

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

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

In an epic tale of good versus evil, Faust sells his soul to the Devil and tries to save Marguerite from an eternity in Hell.

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

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

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