Concert
see all genres ›One of the biggest attractions from cinema's earliest days was its ability to record great live performances and, with the arrival of sound, that extended to live musical ones, too.
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Brothers Hypnotic
At 6:00 a.m. sharp, the children of jazz musician Phil Cohran began band rehearsal. A family of twenty-four living on Chicago's South Side, the "brothers" of the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble were brought up by their father and three mothers on a strict diet of jazz, funk and Black...Watch Movie
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The Kingdom of Zydeco
Attempting to name a new "king of zydeco" in the mid 1990s, THE KINGDOM OF ZYDECO looks at the Black Creole music scene of Southwest Louisiana. The music's original self-proclaimed "king" was the great Clifton Chenier who did more than anyone to develop zydeco's musical form...Watch Movie
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Every Everything
In marked contrast to COLOR ME OBSESSED, director Gorman Bechard's risky yet rewarding 2011 Replacements documentary that featured no songs or appearances by its subject matter, his upcoming EVERY EVERYTHING: THE MUSIC, LIFE, AND TIMES OF GRANT HEART doc completely flips the...Watch Movie
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Welcome to the Terrordome
Public Enemy's twenty year career has had a monumental impact on the music world. This film chronicles their legacy and history, while revealing what icons of the music world say about their profound influence. Two decades later, the most controversial rap group of the 1980s...Watch Movie
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American Harmony
Every year, thousands compete in the world's greatest singing competition - that you've never heard of. At the International Championships of Barbershop Singing, passion is equaled only by raw talent, and the reward is not fame or fortune, but simply victory. AMERICAN HARMONY...Watch Movie
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Punk's Not Dead
PUNK'S NOT DEAD is more than just a tribute documentary. It takes you on an era-by-era journey that puts punk rock's non-conformist reputation under the knife. Officially sanctioned by the bands in the film who donated personal photos, fliers and home videos, PUNK'S NOT DEAD follows the evolution...Watch Movie
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Return to Goree
A musical road movie, RETURN TO GOREE follows Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour's historical journey tracing the trail left by slaves and the jazz music they created. Youssou N'Dour's challenge is to bring back to Africa a jazz repertoire of his own songs to perform a concert in Goree, the island...Watch Movie
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Kids Like You and Me
In 2009, the Black Lips started investigating the possibility of a bridge building tour of the Middle East with stops throughout the region. After two years of planning, several uprisings, a civil war the tour finally came to fruition in the fall of 2012. It wasn't easy...Watch Movie
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Screaming Men
The Finnish Screaming Male Choir, Mieskuoro Huutajat, dressed in black suits, white shirts and rubber ties is a unique choir which performs its repertoire by shouting and screaming. Led by the conductor Petri Sirviö, the choir has travelled during fifteen years of existence from an idea in a bar...Watch Movie
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What Did You Expect?
Indie rock icons the Archers of Loaf reunited in 2011, and during the course of their reunion tour played two hometown concerts at Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Combining in-your-face concert footage along with rare interviews of the band, this film by director...Watch Movie
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Metamorphosis
METAMORPHOSIS provides a definitive visual record of the first twenty years of legendary Japanese psych-rockers Ghost (they carried on for another decade before disbanding in 2014). Opening with footage of frontman (and sole constant member) Masaki Batoh protesting the occupation of Tibet in...Watch Movie
