Ken Russell Movies

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

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

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...

A portrait of the English composer Gordon Jacob.

The Preservation Man is about useless objects but here they're part of the artist Bruce Lacey's collection of random junk that is incorporated into...

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

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

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...

DON’T SHOOT THE COMPOSER is far from an ordinary profile of Georges Delerue. It also serves as a calling card for Ken Russell, whose work would...

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...

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

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

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

Documentary shows Ken Russell at work on various BBC TV documentaries, with clips from Diary of a Nobody, The Debussy Film, Always on Sunday, Don't...

One of the most conceptually original of all the films that Ken Russell made for Monitor, this imagines an expedition of alien archaeologists...

Ken Russell revisits the location of his 1960 documentary about coal mining in Northumberland and catches up with some of the people who appeared in...

Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...

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

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

PUZZLEFACE - 18min short film (CAN) Episode #7 from Spookey Ruben's Dizzy Playground TV series starring: Denis 'SNAKE' Belanger & VOIVOD, Ken...