richie1

I'm starting a website about rock and roll movies. I've got a very incomplete list here that you can use to find some more documentaries:

Movies

I just started so I don't have any reviews up yet (all reviews are welcomed and appreciated)

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Iron Maiden - The Early Years Part One and Two (nearly 3 hours but worth it).
End Of The Century - The Story Of The Ramones
Yes - Their Fully Authorised Story (not a big fan at all but a very well made doc clocking in at just under 4 hours)
Get Thrashed - a very decent stab at the Thrash Metal genre with all the main players participating and a few that shouldn't be there too.
Can Blue Men Sing The Whites - a great trio of docs concerning the British pre occupation with the Blues in the 60's.
Standing In The Shadow Of Motown - self explanatory really.
Punk : Attitude - a cracking film by the legendary British D.J Don Letts who knows his music being both a Reggae and Punk D.J since the mid 70's.
Motor City's Burning - a BBC doc about the Detroit music scene.

As well as the aforementioned docs:

Krautrock (BBC)
Joy Division

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ChordLord

Love all the ones mentioned.

lucifer_sam

Bit different from other existing threads, I did a quick search and I don't think there's another documentary thread like it. There's usually a good story behind every great band, and some fantastic documentaries about them in circulation.

I've got two personal favorites:



...a surreptitious disembowelment of the troubled relationship between two West Coast psychedelic bands: the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. It pits the chaotic, self-destructive behavior of troubled genius Anton Newcombe against the narrator Courtney Taylor-Taylor's desperately narcissistic struggles to achieve glory. And though Newcombe is vilified throughout for his drug habits and erratic behavior, DiG! only serves to remind who is going to be remembered more fondly by history -- genius, no matter how troubled or self-destructive, always prevails over calculated mediocrity.

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...an extremely heartfelt tale chronicling the life and turmoils of living legend Daniel Johnston. The Devil and Daniel Johnston is told largely through a compilation of interviews by his parents, friends and surprisingly, Daniel himself -- scrupulously recording much of his life in audio and video tapes. It tells the heartbreaking story of a boy who suffered incredible pain at the hands of his own blooming mental illness and his noble attempts to reconcile his inescapable shortcomings. In many ways, it's a film about a boy who never grew old: he never had love reciprocated, but loved nonetheless; he never enjoyed the fruits of happiness, yet was haunted by delusions thereof.

Both of which were incredible documentaries, utterly impeccable pieces of filmmaking, though for entirely different reasons.

What is your favorite documentary about music?

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Zer0

There was a thread here from not so long ago:

http://www.musicbanter.com/general-m...ies-music.html

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Scarlett O'Hara

Thanks Zer0, I'll close this now.

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Freebase Dali

Merged. Made more sense than just closing it.

Scarlett O'Hara

Legend.

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Sneer

Step Across The Border

A documentary on Fred Frith. Top notch. Featuring rehearsals, performances, interviews and behind the scenes footage, it's a very interesting look into the mind of one of the most important Avant-Garde musicians ever, as far as I'm concerned.

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