Impress your friends and stupefy your enemies with all the serious music geek knowledge you'll absorb from watching these documentaries, interviews and behind-the-scenes concert footage of some of pop music's most iconic stars and scenes.
The definitive life story of Bob Marley - musician, revolutionary, legend -- from the early days to international superstardom. Made with the support of his family, featuring rare footage, incredible performances and revelatory interviews.
Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Kevin Macdonald
Cameron Crowe's affectionate documentary Pearl Jam Twenty details the tumultuous history, and pre-history, of one of the most iconic grunge bands to emerge from the fertile Seattle music scene of the late '80s. Culled from hundreds of hours of private footage, as well as from extensive interviews with band members Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Mike ...
Pearl Jam, Eddie Vedder, Jeff Ament, Stone Gossard, Mike McCready, Matt Cameron
This extensive interview with notoriously murdered rapper Tupac Shakur was recorded at the Clinton Correctional Facility, and features the artist discussing everything from his relationship with his mother, to his involvement in gang life and street crime.
Ken Peters, Tupac Shakur
Madonna: Like you've never seen her before. This movie reveals her as she really is, on stage and off--den mother to her family of dancers, sex goddess to her millions of fans, businesswoman, singer, dancer, the biggest star in the world of music. Join her and experience an intimate backstage look at her "Blonde Ambition" tour. From her hotel ro...
Madonna, Donna DeLory, Niki Harris
Patty Schemel, the hard hitting drummer of Courtney Love's seminal rock band Hole, is not only a master of the sticks, but a true survivor. After growing up as an outsider near Seattle she shot to stardom in the early 90's and was engulfed by the music scene. Patty casually documented her life as a rock star - at band practice, on the...
Patty Schemel, Courtney Love, Eric Erlandson, Kurt Cobain
Woodstock, the concert, gave voice to the spirit of a generation, offering the world a three-day microcosm of the turbulent '60s, set to the music of the era's greatest rock performers. "Woodstock," the film, captures it all, now with more than 40 minutes of added material and masterfully remixed sound. This Academy Award-winner for Best Documen...
The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Santana
Fort Green, Brooklyn was home base to an extraordinary community of black and Hispanic artists in the '80s and '90s. Spike Lee, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez, rapper Talib Kweli, artist Lorna Simpson, jazzman Branford Marsalis, rock guitarist Vernon Reed, and poet/rocker Saul Williams are just some of the talent that resided in the area. Writer and ...
Spike Lee, Branford Marsalis, Chris Rock, Rosie Perez, Carl Rux
Filmmaker A.J. Schnack draws from over 25 hours of audio-taped interviews to offer an intimate meditation on the life of the man who changed the face of rock & roll in the 1990s in this film that uses materials originally gathered for music journalist Michael Azerrad's book Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. From his early childhood to his d...
Kurt Cobain
Nick Broomfield, director of Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam and Kurt and Courtney, unleashes another provocation with Biggie and Tupac. Considering Broomfield's track record, that the film is dangerous, sensational, and occasionally very funny is no surprise. What is somewhat shocking, in a very rewarding and commendable way, is how moving Biggie...
This profile of pop star Lady Gaga tells the complete story of the singer's life and career, beginning as a child with an interest in playing the piano, through her efforts to score a record deal, and on to her ascent to fame as one of the most popular performers in music.
Dave Wartnaby, Lady Gaga, Ozzy Osbourne, Akon, Michael Bolton, RedOne Nadir, ...
Heavy Metal in Baghdad is a documentary feature film that follows the Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda (Latin for a deadly black scorpion native to Iraq) from the fall of Saddam Hussein to their escape from Iraq. The band members - Firas (bass), Tony (lead guitar), Marwan (drums) and Faisal (lead vocals and rhythm guitar)-were bred on America...
Firas Al-Lateef (himself), Suroosh Alvi (himself), Marwan Reyad (himself), Fa...
This biography takes a look at the life of pop-idol Justin Bieber, beginning with his humble upbringing in a small Canadian town, to the fateful meeting with manager Shaun Braun and consequent place on Usher's record label. The program also examines ways the teen star copes with the trappings of fame, and how he spends his free time. Features ex...
Justin Bieber, Usher
This profile on pop star Michael Jackson tells the story of the singer's life, with commentary from his peers and contemporaries like Janet Jackson, Paul Gambaccini, Diana Ross, and Quincy Jones, as well as through never-before-seen footage of Jackson in action.
Michael Jackson, La Toya Jackson, Janet Jackson, Diana Ross, Elizabeth Taylor...
One of the most exciting and innovative musicians in rock history, Jimi Hendrix rang in the year 1970 with four shows at New York's Filmore East, in which he performed with his new group The Band of Gypsies, who expanded Jimi's hard-rock style into a sound that embraced a wider range of R&B and Funk influences. This video collects rare footage f...
Jimi Hendrix
When Rodney Bingenheimer was just a teenager -- a diminutive, long-haired kid who was picked on a lot -- his mother, a divorced autograph hound, dropped him off in front of the home of actress Connie Stevens and essentially said, "Good luck." Stevens was on location shooting a movie and Bingenheimer says he didn't see his mother again for five o...
Courtney Love, Cher, Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, The Doors, David Bowie
British documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Fetishes, Heidi Fleiss, Hollywood Madam) made this portrait of the late rock-star Kurt Cobain and his widow, musician and actress Courtney Love. Beginning with the 27-year-old Cobain's April 1994 suicide, Broomfield traces Cobain's Aberdeen, Washington, childhood and rise to fame, and the 1992 marri...
With outstanding performances and revealing interviews Before the Music Dies takes a critical look at the homogenization of popular music with commentary by some of the industry's biggest talents like Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Erykah Badu, Branford Marsalis, Bonnie Raitt and more. Using historic footage the film looks at the e...
Elvis Costello, Erykah Badu, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews, Michael Penn, Fores...
This documentary attempts to capture the life of John Lennon utilizing an extensive amount of archival footage, as well as interviews with both of his wives, as well as with other people who knew him both personally and professionally.
The Beatles, Cynthia Lennon, Julian Lennon