Ken Russel

At the BFI Southbank, Ken Loach talks about a career dedicated to documenting social and political injustice, the importance of artistic collaboration, and the humour in his films.

This heartfelt celebration pays tribute to one of the most distinctive and adored British comedians of all time. Equipped with his trademark set of buck teeth and tickling stick, Ken Dodd was a man who simply lived to make people laugh.

The tattyfilarious tale of a true showman, Britain's hardest working comedian. Combining live performances, rare interviews, and contributions from friends and family, this is the definitive life story of Ken Dodd as told by the man himself.

This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly if unhappily involved with the gangsters.

A freewheeling portrait of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' fabled road trip across America.

For over six decades, Sir Ken Dodd was one of Britain's favourite entertainers - a comedian whose surreal world of tickling sticks, jam butty mines and Diddymen kept generations of audiences entertained, from his professional debut in 1954 to his final curtain call in December 2017. In Sir Ken's own words and with testimony from friends, family and colleagues who knew him best, this revealing documentary film tells the story of his incredible life and long career, which included a record-breaking run at The London Palladium in the 1960s, numerous television series and specials, countless summer seasons and variety shows, a string of hit records and a touring one-man show that continued right into his ninetieth year.

Ken Buchanan was arguably Scotland's greatest world champion boxer. He took the lightweight title against the odds in the sweltering heat of Puerto Rico, and remained world champion until a bruising and controversial bout with the mighty Roberto Duran at Madison Square Garden.