| Films Russell others |
Television, books, history
etc others Russell |
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 Voyage to the Moon, Georges Melies |
1900 | |
| 1910 | ||
| 1911 | The Lair
of the White Worm, Bram Stoker, novel Ronald Reagan born |
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| 1912 | ||
| 1913 | ||
| 1914 | First World War | |
Orson
Welles born Birth of a Nation, D.W. Griffith |
1915 | The Rainbow, D.H. Lawrence, novel |
| 1916 | Women in Love, D.H. Lawrence, novel | |
| 1917 | John F. Kennedy born USA | |
| 1918 | First World War ends | |
| 1919 | ||
| 1920 | ||
| 1921 | ||
| 1922 |
 Ulysses by James Joyce, novel BBC founded (radio) |
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| 1923 | ||
| Siegfried, Fritz Lang | 1924 |
 Franz Kafka dies |
| 1925 | Margaret Roberts (Thatcher) born | |
| 1926 | ||
 Metropolis, Fritz Lang  The Jazz Singer, Alan Crosland |
1927 | Ken Russell born |
| Stanley Kubrick born | 1928 | Lady Chatterley´s Lover, D.H. Lawrence, novel |
| 1929 | BBC experiments with television | |
| 1930 |
 D.H. Lawrence dies |
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| M, Fritz
Lang Frankenstein, James Whale |
1931 | |
| Richard Lester born | 1932 | |
| 1933 | ||
| 1934 | ||
| Bride of Frankenstein, James Whale | 1935 | |
| Glenda Jackson born | 1936 | |
| 1937 | ||
| Oliver
Reed born Georges Melies dies |
1938 | |
| Melvyn Bragg born | 1939 | |
| 1940 | ||
| Citizen Kane, Orson Welles | 1941 | |
| Derek Jarman born | 1942 | |
| 1943 | ||
| 1944 | ||
| 1945 | Second World War in Europe over | |
 Beauty and the Beast by Jean Cocteau |
1946 | Second
World War in Asia over |
| 1947 | ||
| D.W. Griffith dies | 1948 | |
 Orpheus by Jean Cocteau |
1949 | Nineteen Eighty-Four George Orwell, novel |
| 1950 | ||
| 1951 | ||
| 1952 | ||
| 1953 | ||
| 1954 |
 The Boyfriend, Sandy Wilson (stage musical) |
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| Richard III by Laurence Olivier | 1955 | BBC
experiments with colour television Independent television in Great Britain| in competition with the BBC |
| 1956 | Peepshow, amateur film Marries Shirley Kingdom |
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| James Whale dies | 1957 | Knights on Bikes, amateur film |
| 1958 | Amelia and
the Angel, amateur film Lourdes, amateur film |
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| 1959 | Poet´s
London, television Gordon Jacob, television Guitar Crazy, television Variations on a Mechanical Theme, television Two Painters, television Portrait of a Goon, television |
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| 1960 | Marie
Rambert Remembers, television Architecture of Entertainment, television Cranks at Work, television The Miners´ Picnic, television Shelagh Delayey´s Salford, television A House in Bayswater, television The Light Fantastic, television |
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| 1961 | London
Moods, television The Light Fantastic, television Antonio Gaudi, television Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill, television Old Battersea House, television Portrait of a Soviet Composer, television |
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| Dr. No, Terence Young | 1962 | Pop Goes
the Easel, television Preservation Man, television Mr Chesher´s Traction Engines, television Elgar, television |
| Summer
Holiday, Peter Yates French Dressing Jean Cocteau dies |
1963 | Watch the
Birdie, television John F. Kennedy assassinated USA |
| A Hard Day´s Night, Richard Lester | 1964 | Lonely
Shore, television Bartok, television The Dotty World of James Lloyd, television Diary of a Nobody, television |
| 1965 | The
Debussy Film, television Always on Sunday, television Don´t Shoot the Composer, television War Game, Peter Watkins, banned on BBC |
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| 1966 | Isadora
Duncan, television Cathy Come Home, Ken Loach Billion Dollar Brain, Len Deighton, novel |
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| Billion Dollar Brain | 1967 | Dante´s Inferno, television |
| 1968 | Song of Summer, television | |
| Women in Love | 1969 | |
| M*A*S*H, Robert Altman | 1970 | The Dance of the Seven Veils, television |
 A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick The Music Lovers The Devils The Boyfriend |
1971 | |
| Savage Messiah | 1972 | |
| Mahler The Exorcist, William Friedkin  The Wicker Man, Robin Hardy |
1973 | |
| 1974 | ||
| Tommy Lisztomania |
1975 | Pol Pot regime and the killing Fields in Cambodia |
Fritz Lang
dies Sebastiane, Derek Jarman |
1976 | |
| Valentino | 1977 | Stephen Biko dies |
| 1978 | Melvyn
Bragg´s South Bank Show starts (television) William and Dorothy, television The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, television Divorce of Shirley Kingdom |
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| 1979 | Margaret Thatcher elected prime minister, Great Britain | |
| Altered States | 1980 | |
| 1981 | Ronald Reagan elected President, USA | |
| 1982 | The
Rake´s Progress (opera) Die Soldaten (opera) Falklands War General Belgrano sunk |
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| 1983 | The
Planets, television Madame Butterfly (opera) Marries Vivian Jolley |
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| Crimes of Passion | 1984 | Italian Girl in Tangiers (opera) |
| Orson Welles dies | 1985 | La Bohema
(opera) Faust (opera) |
| Gothic | 1986 | Vaughan Williams, television |
| Aria (short) | 1987 | |
| The Lair
of the White Worm Salome´s Last Dance |
1988 | A British
Picture, television She´s so Beautiful. Cliff Richard video |
| The Rainbow | 1989 | Mefistofeles (opera) |
| The Russia House (acting role) | 1990 | The
Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner, television Stories of Seduction  Nelson Mandela released from prison |
| Whore | 1991 | Prisoners
of Honor Citizen Kane: A Critical Analysis (Ken appears but does not direct) Divorce of Vivian Jolley |
| 1992 | The Secret
Life of Sir Arnold Bax, television Princess Ida (opera) Marries Hetty Baynes |
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| 1993 | The
Mystery of Dr Martinu, television Lady Chatterley, television |
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| Derek Jarman dies | 1994 | |
| Mindbender | 1995 | Classic
Widows, television Alice in Russialand, television Treasure Island, television Empire of the Censors (Ken appears but does not direct), television I Camcorder (Ken appears but does not direct), television Death of Scriabin (radio) |
| 1996 | Tales of
Erotica A History of British Art (Ken appears but does not direct), television |
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| 1997 | In Search of the English Folk Song, television | |
| 1998 | ||
| Oliver Reed dies | 1999 | |
| 2000 | Weil and Lenya (theatre) | |
| Lion´s Mouth (short) | 2001 | Marries Lisi Tribble |
| The Fall of the Louse of Usher | 2002 | Brighton Belles, television Elgar 2, television |
| 2003 | Brahms Gets Laid (novel) | |
| Revenge of the Elephant Man (short) The Devils uncut premiere The Murder of Mata Hari |
2004 | Colour me Kubrick (Ken acts but does not direct), film |
| 2005 | Edmund Dane (Ken does the voiceover but does not direct), film | |
| Trapped Ashes | 2006 | Ken's house destroyed by fire The Moving Finger (Ken acts but does not direct), television Brothers of the Head (Ken acts but does not direct), film |
| Kitten for Hitler | 2007 | Ken appears on 24 hour
television reality show Celebrity Big Brother Major British Film Institute retrospective of early television work |
| Boudica Bites Back | 2008 | |
| 2009 | ||
| 2010 | ||
| 2011 |