Anthem
A collage of erotic images and a call to arms, with a feverish hip-hop energy that celebrates the lives of African American men.
Genre: Music
Director: Marlon Riggs
Actors: Bernard Branner, Brian Freeman, Colin Robinson, David B. Kirkland, Essex Hemphill, Jesse Harris, Marlon Riggs, Tim Riera, Willi Ninja
Discovering the Music of Antiquity
The discovery of an ancient music score in the Louvre sets researchers on a mission to recreate the music as it was originally heard by the Greeks 2,400 years ago.
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
A chronicle of Bob Dylan’s strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to “voice of a generation” to rock star.
Elvis on Tour
This documentary captures Elvis Presley on his 1972 American tour and includes rehearsals, interviews, archival television appearances and backstage moments. With Elvis at his most flamboyant, the film features well-known…
Moulin Rouge
An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she…
Shake, Rattle and Rock!
A TV star meets with opposition from adults who object to the opening of a rock ‘n’ roll palace for teens.
Heart Like a Hand Grenade
More than 10 years after the release of Green Day’s American Idiot, the 2015 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees present this time capsule rock doc that takes us…
Fire Music
Tom Surgal’s film looks at the astonishing sounds (and sights) of that combustible and wildly diverse moment in music known as free jazz, which more or less began with Ornette…
Billie
‘Lady Day’ was one of the greatest jazz vocalists the world ever heard. In 1971, journalist Linda Lipnack Kuehl set out to write the definitive biography of Billie Holiday. Before…
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
This documentary unveils previously unseen footage of Jimi Hendrix’s seminal performance at the 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival on July 4th, 1970, playing his greatest hits in front of nearly 500,000…
Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin’
An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented and influential guitarist of the twentieth century: his humble beginnings in Seattle, his time…