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Genre | documentary, music |
Country | Russia, USA |
Duration | 02:29 |
Once upon a time in Russia, communism fell and Rock 'n' Roll rose to power. One band reigned supreme and toured far and wide across the eastern earth, but never even left Russia - until now. They only have once chance, to not only rule Russia -but to become the best band in the West. The strategy is simple - get on the boat, create an album - and make new friends. All with hopes of finally becoming a household name in the United States. But sometimes fame is harder than just toppling a government.
Mark | imdb: 7.6 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:25 |
Documentary about the arena-packing Swedish DJ, chronicling his explosive rise to fame and surprising decision to retire from live performances in 2016.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA |
As the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs and have a No. 1 album, The Go-Go’s made history. Underpinned by candid testimonies, this film chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of a band born in the LA punk scene who became a pop phenomenon.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:20 |
Musician Cat Power narrates this documentary on Janis Joplin's evolution into a star from letters that Joplin wrote over the years to her friends, family, and collaborators.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
Mark | imdb: 8.1 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
Duration | 03:28 |
Director Martin Scorsese profiles former Beatle George Harrison in this reverent portrait that mixes interviews and archival footage, featuring commentary from the likes of Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Yoko Ono.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
A wilfully offensive band, The Mentors gained infamy for performing in black executioner hoods and spewing cartoonishly racist, homophobic and misogynistic lyrics in the 1980s and ‘90s—but was their use of shock meant to propagate hate or confront it?
Mark | imdb: 4.5 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:46 |
Go behind the scenes during One Directions sell out "Take Me Home" tour and experience life on the road.
Mark | imdb: 8 |
Genre | family, documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
A documentary film detailing Glen Campbell's final tour and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA, Serbia and Montenegro |
Half a million people descend upon a tiny Serbian village for the 50th anniversary of the world's largest trumpet festival. Brasslands chronicles the cultural and musical collisions through the personal journeys of 3 musicians - American, Serbian, Roma - whose lives are bound to Balkan brass for very different reasons.
Mark | imdb: 7.7 |
Genre | drama, documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
The story of Jaco Pastorius, a self-taught, larger-than-life musician who single-handedly changed the course of modern music by redefining the sound and the role of the electric bass guitar. Never-before-seen 8mm film, photographs, and audio recordings unveil the true story behind the legend of Jaco’s life, his music, and his heartbreaking end.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography, history |
Country | USA |
In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA, Sri Lanka |
Duration | 02:18 |
Drawn from a never before seen cache of personal footage spanning decades, this is an intimate portrait of the Sri Lankan artist and musician who continues to shatter conventions.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 00:28 |
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, music, history |
Country | USA |
Rock & Roll spread the sound of freedom across the Iron Curtain and throughout Eastern Europe and the USSR, despite Communist attempts to outlaw it and to crush what they perceived was a contamination of their youth. Over the next thirty years, thousands of underground bands and millions of young fans who yearned for Western values helped fuel the nonvio- lent implosion of the Soviet regime. FREE TO ROCK features Presidents, diplomats, spies and rock stars from the West, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who reveal how Rock & Roll music was a contributing factor in ending the Cold
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | comedy, documentary, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:00 |
Left brain and right brain duke it out and then belt out a tune in comedian Bo Burnham's quick and clever one-man show. As intelligent as he is lanky, Burnham cynically pokes at pop entertainment while offering unadulterated showmanship of his own.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA |
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the recording of Aretha Franklin's best-selling album finally sees the light of day more than four decades after the original footage was shot.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | documentary, music |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:01 |
Duran Duran: Unstaged is a multimedia event that takes the audience on a cinematic journey with one of the most successful acts in the world during their performance at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles.