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Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France, Italy |
Duration | 01:49 |
Featuring never-before-seen footage, concert performances and intimate interviews, filmmaker Ron Howard examines the life and career of famed opera tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
Mark | imdb: 7.5 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | France, Germany |
Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.
Mark | imdb: 8.3 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | France |
This documentary recounts the life of the late composer Michel Legrand, known for his works on Les Parapluies de Cherbourg or Les Demoiselles De Rochefort with the famous director Jacques Demy.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | USA |
Supermensch documents the astounding career of Hollywood insider, the loveable Shep Gordon, who fell into music management by chance after moving to LA straight out of college, and befriending Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix. Shep managed rock stars such as Pink Floyd, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass and Alice Cooper, and later went on to manage chefs such as Emeril Lagasse, ushering in the era of celebrity chefs on television.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Documentary charting the life of blues guitarist B.B. King, with contributions from fellow musicians.
Mark | imdb: 7.8 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | United Kingdom |
From award-winning director Mat Whitecross and featuring extensive unseen archive footage, Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed, and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | Australia, United Kingdom |
Michael Hutchence was flying high as the lead singer of the legendary rock band INXS until his untimely death in 1997. Richard Lowenstein’s documentary examines Hutchence’s deeply felt life through his many loves and demons.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | documentary, music, biography |
Country | Denmark |
When the Danish group Lukas Graham were starting out in 2012, they could never in their wildest dreams have imagined the journey they were embarking on. A journey, which would transport them from their humble roots in Copenhagen to performing on the GRAMMYs stage in Los Angeles.
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, biography |
Country | USA |
A visionary, innovator, and originator who defied categorization and embodied the word cool—a foray into the life and career of musical and cultural icon Miles Davis.