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This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
Whore
South Bank Show documentary concerning the life and music of Ralph Vaughn Williams.
Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait
Living on an estate on the shores of Lake Geneva, Lord Byron is visited by Percy and Mary Shelley. Together with Byron's lover Claire Clairmont, and...
Gothic
An investigation into nunsploitation, and why men find images of nuns involved in sexual situations erotic. The programme also controversially covers...
The Real Blue Nuns
After a series of traumatic childhood events, a psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind boy becomes a master pinball player and the object of a...
Tommy
Trapped in a house of horror, seven people discover that the only way they'll get out alive is to tell their scariest stories.
Trapped Ashes
In 1926 the tragic and untimely death of a silent screen actor caused female moviegoers to riot in the streets and in some cases to commit suicide...
Valentino
The outrageous life of the American dancer of the 1920s, Isadora Duncan, whom Ken Russell described as "part genius and part charlatan".
Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World
London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury...
Salome's Last Dance
A documentary portrait about the life and times of the infamous hellraiser, who died in May 1999, having starred in more than 100 films.
The Real Oliver Reed
Rock star Roddy Usher is confined to an insane asylum after murdering his wife. There, he is given various shock treatments by...
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
The result of a challenge from Melvyn Bragg to write a film that Ken Russell himself would be eager to see banned, was A Kitten For Hitler – a...
A Kitten for Hitler
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...
Hell on Earth: The Desecration & Resurrection of The Devils
Documentary covering the career of French composer Georges Delerue, famous for film scores for such films as Platoon, Contempt, Shoot the Piano...
Music for the Movies: Georges Delerue
A series of erotic short films, all with similar unexpected endings.
Tales of Erotica
A cine-opera retelling of the legend of Boudica, warrior queen and her uprising against the Roman occupiers of Britain.
Boudica Bites Back
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple...
Savage Messiah
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 Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch
A short directed by Ken Russell.
Revenge of the Elephant Man
Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as...
Mr. Nice
A short musical directed by Ken Russell.
Lion's Mouth
The story of Roger Daltrey (vocals), Pete Townshend (guitar), John Entwistle (bass) and Keith Moon (drums): The Who, one of the most original,...
The Who: One Band's Explosive Story
A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes.
In Search of Dracula
A courtroom 'drama' featuring Bob Guccione versus Ken Russell in a breach of contract case regarding disagreements over a script for a film version...
Your Honour, I Object! Guccione V Russell
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...
Don’t Shoot the Composer
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...
Brothers of the Head
An irreverent survey of British Music.
Ken Russell's ABC of British Music
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...
Director of Devils
Documentary presenting Alan Parker’s view of British cinema with comments from Richard Lester and others and location report from King’s...
A Turnip Head’s Guide To The British Cinema
A line up of star performers celebrate the very best of Edward Elgar's music in the 150th anniversary year of his birth.
10 Best Elgar
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to...
The Russia House
The history of film and video censorship in Great Britain.
Empire of the Censors
Following the recent death of Ken Russell, Alan Yentob looks back over the career of the flamboyant film director responsible for Women In Love,...
Ken Russell: A Bit of a Devil
The last five years of Frederick Delius's life through the eyes of a young composer and aide, Eric Fenby.
Song of Summer
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...
Colour Me Kubrick
On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces...
The Lair of the White Worm
Gangsters run rampant until they encounter a gutsy minister.
Walk With The Damned
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...
Russell at Work
A biopic about the eminent composer Sir Arnold Bax.
The Secret Life of Arnold Bax
A short promotional film for the 2010 Oldenburg Film Festival consisting of various actors and film personalities telling a joke about an...
The Aristofrogs
The updated autobiography of Britain’s most controversial film director, the maker of Women in Love, The Devils, The Music Lovers, Tommy and...
A British Picture
On-set footage of the film The Devils (1971) with commentary by editor Mike Bradsell
The Devils Original on-set footage
PUZZLEFACE - 18min short film (CAN) Episode #7 from Spookey Ruben's Dizzy Playground TV series starring: Denis 'SNAKE' Belanger & VOIVOD, Ken...
PuzzleFace
This documentary begins with Ken Russell posing the question: "What is a true English folk song, if there is such a thing?" After recieving an...
Ken Russell: In Search of the English Folk Song
Through concert performances and interviews, this film offers us a comprehensive look at the British pioneer rock group, The Who. It captures their...
The Kids Are Alright
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...
Twiggy
Ken Russell revisits the life of Elgar, with musical background provided by the composer's works.
Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle