Movies: Rockumentary

A cliche start: 4 teenage boys form a rock band in the drummer's kitchen. 45 years, 14 albums, 24 concert tours, 22 Grammies. U2 raises millions to fight hunger, disease and poverty. Music transcends melody. It means mission....

A Film by Andre Perkowski Made Out Of All The Other Beach Boys Films...

The ups and downs of the popular music world are revealed to a singer....

The lives and struggles of touring musicians as they expose a little seen face of the music industry, and how it is changing....

A short film by Albert Watson from 1997 starring Henry Rollins as himself, doing his spoken word bit I Know You of the album The Boxed Life....

Rock is music for young people. Nick Rock-n-Roll, the protagonist of the film, doesn’t agree with it all. He’s 48 years old and as during his youth he still feels music deeply and looking for something special, unusual, which is out of stereotypes an...

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988....

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Featuring legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, 'Document: A film about Malojian' captures the energy of a band at the top of their game, as they rush to complete their third album, "This is Nowhere", in just four days....

Concert film dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the rock band Mashina Vremeni on May 27, 1989 at the Luzhniki Sports Palace....

A documentary film chronicling the rehearsal, preparation and performance of a Fishmans concert performed on February 19, 2019 @Zepp Tokyo....

A documentary that goes inside the dark, witty, surreal world of cult English singer/songwriter Robyn Hitchcock....

Petar Peca Popović is one of the greatest, most famous, most authoritative and for sure, the best, connoisseur of Rock and Roll in the former Yugoslavia. He promoted Rock and Roll in those heroic times. We are going on a peculiar kind of trip with hi...

Dan Cleveland, a Minneapolis-based rock guitarist/deliveryman meets obstacles to his musical ambitions with uncanny determination, perseverance, and strange "inventions."...

The 50 year struggle between rock pioneers and powerful business/government interests for the soul of music radio, told by America's favorite deejays and the artists they made rock stars....

A documentary chronicling the sometimes disastrous career of 80s MTV hit rock band Bang Tango....

In this documentary from director Justin Mitchell, the world of the U.S. indie-music scene of the 1980s and '90s is explored, specifically with regard to how it transcended clichés about where music was heading in that era. Taking its title from reno...

The saga of Dan Cleveland, the hardest-working man in local rock, and his band Dark Horse continues. Several years have passed since the events of "Driver 23" but Cleveland's enthusiasm for his dream of heavy metal stardom has not been dampened in th...

Documentary on the shock rock group "The Mentors"....

The five piece rock band The Upper Crust dress like 18th century European noblemen and sing about being fabulously rich. They start out playing the dingiest of dive-bars. One of them will end up as a confidant to the President. Shot over five years, ...