10 best movies like From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop (2017)

List of the best movies like From Scratch: The Birth of Hip Hop (2017): Good Ol' Freda, We are Twisted Fucking Sister!, Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Rising Above the Blues: The Story of Jimmy Scott, Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band, For No Good Reason, Muscle Shoals, Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records, Becoming Bond, Bad Brains: A Band in DC.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:26

The story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: The Beatles. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda tells her tales for the first time in 50 years.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, documentary, music, biography, history
CountryGermany, USA

In 1984, American heavy metal band Twisted Sister became a global sensation. For 30 years, they been synonymous with hairspray, women's clothing and tasteless album covers. Until now. Ten years ago, director Andrew Horn was granted access to the archives of Twisted Sister founder Jay French and in We are Twisted fucking Sister he explores the decade that preceded their breakthrough.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUSA

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.

Markimdb: 9.6
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryGermany, USA

About Jimmy Scott, who has had profound influence on the world of jazz and pop, but was never recognized by a wider audience. The documentary takes us behind the record production, where artists and musicians like Quincy Jones, Kenny Barron, John Pisano or Peter Erskine are telling their own story about Jimmy Scott. We get a look behind the scenery and find out how this record is carried out. This Making-Of is a moving document about an unknown icon of music history.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryCanada, USA

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

Markimdb: 7
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

For No Good Reason a film about Ralph Steadman. Johnny Depp guides the visually stunning journey, smashing narrative conventions, moving seamlessly from interview to animation and in the finest Gonzo tradition questions of witness and authenticity are challenged. Steadman's art is for the first time animated, including illustrations from Hunter S Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vagas. Featuring Richard E Grant, Terry Gilliam, Bruce Robinson and with music from Slash, The All American Rejects, Jason Mraz, Crystal Castles, Ed Hardcourt and Beth Orton. A touching and at times funny film about honesty, friendship and the ambition driving an artist. This is a true record of the demise of the 20th Century counterculture and hipster dream with Ralph Steadman the last of the Gonzo visionaries.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUSA

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.”

Markimdb: 7.7
Genredocumentary, music, biography, history
CountryUSA, Belgium, Canada, Germany

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrecomedy, documentary, biography, history
CountryUSA

The stranger-than-fiction true story of George Lazenby, a poor Australian car mechanic who, through an unbelievable set of circumstances, landed the role of James Bond despite having never acted a day in his life.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredocumentary, music, biography
CountryUSA

Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in groups like Beastie Boys, No Doubt, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction and countless more. Despite the troubles of an eccentric front man they have stayed together for 30 years without ever reaching the level of success so many think they deserve. Using rare archival footage and original comic illustrations the film re-constructs Bad Brains' rich and complicated history.




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