Documentaries : Music

The historic Farewell Concert at Albert Hall in London by one of rock’s greatest groups has been dynamically recorded in this film by Robert Stigwood. The group, composed of Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass and lead vocals, and Ginger Baker on drums, give an electrifying perform...

A documentary showing both how The Beatles made music together, and how they split up. Hundreds of hours of raw footage was condensed into the final product. The rooftop performance ending the film remains a rock-n-roll archetype....

The human voice is the most expressive instrument known to man...it can evoke an enormous amount of emotions"~YANNI~ Yanni's grandiose keyboard style is both accessible and exciting, two elements .....

Live versions of the songs, filmed in an old Pompeii amphitheater. Songs included are Echoes (split into 2 parts), Careful with that axe, Eugene, A saucerful of secrets, One of those days, Set the controls for the heart of the sun, Mademoiselle nobbs (Seamus, but with Rick’s dog on vocals). &q...

Billy Connolly was, in the 1970s, a sort of Scottish Lenny Bruce, who, with devastating humour, sliced through the hypocrisies he perceived. This 1976 documentary follows the singer-comic during his 1975 Irish tour. Made in a cinema verite fashion, the performer appears to be completely unaware of t...

Isaac Stern's cultural tour of China is seen, with the master violinist performing and mentoring young Chinese musicians. He visits rehearsals of the Peking Opera, meeting with their musicians who use traditional Chinese instruments, and also visits a sports academy and other venues. The lingering e...

Sex, death, reptiles, charisma and a unique variant of the electric blues gave the Doors an aura of profundity that has survived the band’s demise. In September, 1968, The Doors gave a history making performance at The Roundhouse in London’s Chalk Farm. They gave powerful renditions of t...

The most uneven studio album recorded with Jim Morrison in the group, partially because their experiments with brass and strings on about half the tracks weren't entirely successful. More to the point, though, this was their weakest overall set of material, low lights including filler like "Do It" a...

Award-winning biography of the man who with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer brought reggae out of Jamaica and gave it to the world. Interviews with Bob, his mom Cedella and wife Rita, Peter and Bunny, their friends and co-workers. Many performances including some rare footage of the Old Grey Whistle Tes...

Using entirely still photographs from the Nineteenth Century, a folk sings a song about the great Blackfoot Chief of the Canadian West, Crowfoot. It tells his story as the rise of a great warrior, but he was unable to protect his people from the treachery and the exploitation of the White civilizati...