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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on the first part of The Beatles' career the period in which they toured and captured the worlds acclaim. Explores how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings how they made decisions, created their music and built their collective career together all the while, exploring The Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their remarkable,...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based on the first part of the Beatles' career, the period in which they toured and captured the world's acclaim. Explore how John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr came together to become this extraordinary phenomenon. It explores their inner workings - how they made decisions, created their music, and built their collective career together - all while exploring the Beatles' extraordinary and unique musical gifts and their...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1970s, Sixto Rodriguez was a Detroit folksinger who had a short-lived recording career. Unknown to him, his musical story continued in South Africa where he became a pop music icon. Long rumored there to be dead, two fans, record store owner Stephen Segerman and journalist Craig Bartholomew-Strydom, decided to seek out the truth of his fate.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Documents the day three generations of electric guitar players met to share their own stories on how they developed their own unique sound and playing style. Viewers will hear fresh music from each artist and witness intimate moments as they discuss what influences how they write and play. Includes Toronto Film Festival press conference.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was the first artist to top the Pop, Country, and R&B charts...
7) Fiddlin'
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Sister filmmakers, Julie Simone and Vicki Vlasic return to their Appalachian roots to film at the world's oldest Fiddler's Convention. With multi-generations jamming together, witness some off-the-charts pickin and fiddlin keeping old-time and bluegrass alive in the Appalachian mountains.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1164
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Emerging from the primordial soup of glamour, gutter sleaze, and feverish creativity that was New York₂s 1960s underground culture, the Velvet Underground redefined music with its at once raw and exalted blend of experimentation and art-damaged rock and roll. In his kaleidoscopic documentary The Velvet Underground, Todd Haynes vividly evokes the band's incandescent world: the creative origins of the twin visionaries Lou Reed and John Cale, Andy...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An in-depth look at the relationship between the late musician Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. Nick Broomfield's most personal and romantic film of his storied career starts on the Greek island of Hydra in 1960, where Leonard Cohen, then a struggling and unknown fiction writer, and Marianne Ihlen, a single mother with a young son, became part of community of expat artists, writers, and musicians. Never-before-seen footage shot...
10) Hired gun
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about session and touring musicians that are hired by well established and famous bands and artists like Metallica, KISS, and Billy Joel. These hired guns may not be household names, but are still masters of their craft.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The most iconic rock guitarist since Keith Richards, Slash has achieved the status of 'most interesting hard rock act in the world today.' And 20 years after the demise of the group with whom he made his name, he continues to build on an already remarkable career trajectory, while his old sparring partner in Guns N' Roses produces pale imitations of past glories.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's true, Joan Jett became mega-famous from the number-one hit "I Love Rock n Roll," but that's only part of the story. This documentary gives a wild ride as Jett and her close friends tell you how it really was in the burgeoning's 70s punk scene and the rocky road to rock stardom decades on. Their interviews are laced with amazing archival footage.
15) Still swingin'
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of Western swing music, as well as legendary singer Bob Wills' pivotal role in keeping this unique musical form alive for generations. Over four hours of bonus material.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
2021 marks the 45th anniversary of the seminal music documentary Heartworn Highways, a film that captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw Country movement in the mid-70s. Today, Heartworn Highways Revisited explores and celebrates the authenticity and spirit of that legendary film via a community of contemporary musicians creating music in Nashville, Tennessee. The filmmakers reunite with Heartworn originals Guy Clark, Steve Young, and David Allan...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captures Elvis backstage, in rehearsal, and in concert at the International Hotel in Las Vegas in the summer of 1970. Includes 27 songs including That's alright Mama, Little sister, Love me tender, Heartbreak hotel, Blue suede shoes, All shook up, Suspicious minds, and Can't help falling in love with you.
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In a brief four year span in the late 1960's, in a quaint San Francisco neighborhood less than a mile square, a creative movement emerged that would ignite a musical genre. What would come to be coined "the San Francisco Sound" served as the soundtrack for a counterculture revolution that would forever challenge the perception of the American ideal. This movement climaxed in a single California season known as the Summer of Love, in a neighborhood...
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