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"He breathed unforgettably dynamic life into the television documentary in general and the biographical portrait in particular"
Michael Brooke (Lakes of courage: in praise of Ken Russell’s music films, BFI, 20 Nov 2019, from here)

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Amateur days

Picture Stories (Charlotte Bronte)
Peepshow, Knights on Bikes
Amelia and the Angel, Lourdes

Monitor shorts

Poet's London, Gordon Jacob, Guitar Crazy
Variations on a mechanical theme, Two Painters
Portrait of a Goon, Marie Rambert remembers, Architecture and Entertainment
Cranks at Work, The miner's picnic, Shelagh Delaney's Salford
A house in Bayswater, The light fantastic
London Moods, Antonio Gaudi, Lotte Lenya sings Kurt Weill
Old Battersea House

Monitor classics

Portrait of a Soviet Composer, Pop goes the easel
Preservation man, Mr Chesher´s traction engines

Elgar

Watch the birdie, The lonely shore
Bartok, The dotty world of James Lloyd
Diary of a nobody

Omnibus classics

The Debussy Film

Always on a Sunday Don't shoot the composer

Isadora

Dante's Inferno

Song of Summer

Dance of the SevenVeils

Clouds of Glory

William and Dorothy, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

ABC of British Music, A British Picture, The Planets

Secret Lives

Vaughan Williams, The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner
The Road to Mandalay, The Secret Life of Sir Arnold Bax
The Mystery of Doctor Martinu

Classic Widows
In Search of the English Folk Song

Honour and Seduction

Stories of Seduction, Prisoners of Honor
Lady Chatterley, Ken Russell's Treasure Island
Alice in Russialand, Mindbender
Tales of Erotica

Dogboys and belles

Dogboys, Brighton Belles
Elgar A Portrait of the Composer on a Bicycle
Trapped Ashes/ The Girl with the Golden Breasts

Gorsewood

Lion's Mouth, The Fall of the Louse of Usher

Gorsewood Shorts

Revenge of the Elephant Man (Hot Pants 1)
The Mystery of Mata Hari (Hot Pants 2)
The Goodship Venus (Hot Pants 3)
A Kitten for Hitler
Boudica Strikes Back

videos

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Trial of the Century, She's So Beautiful
Phantom of the Opera, Nikita, Cry for Heaven
Diana, Its all coming back to me now
Teenager in Love

Opera

The Rake's Progress (Stravinsky)
Madama Butterfly (Puccini)
The Italian Girl in Algiers (Rossini)
La Boheme (Puccini)
Die Soldaten (Zimmerman)
Faust (Gounod)
Mefistofoles (Boite)
Princess Ida (Gilbert and Sullivan)
Salome (Richard Strauss)

stage and radio

Weill and Lenya
Mindgame

The Death of Scriabin (radio play)

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