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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom(2020)

1h 34min | Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 497 votes)

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Ghost World(2001)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama
3.6/5 (with 591 votes)

Two quirky, cynical teenaged girls try to figure out what to do with their lives after high school graduation. After they play a prank on an eccentric, middle aged record collector, one of them befriends him, which causes a rift in the girls' friendship.

Keith Richards: Under the Influence(2015)

1h 22min | Documentary, Music
3.4/5 (with 31 votes)

A portrait of Keith Richards that takes us on a journey to discover the genesis of his sound as a songwriter, guitarist and performer.

What Happened, Miss Simone?(2015)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 41min | Music, Documentary
3.7/5 (with 164 votes)

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate activist, told in her own words.

Directed by Liz Garbus

Lady Sings the Blues(1972)

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.

Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars(2018)

2h 15min | Documentary, Music
3.8/5 (with 16 votes)

An unflinching and deeply personal journey into the life and work of guitarist Eric Clapton told through his own words and songs.

Directed by Lili Fini Zanuck

Muscle Shoals(2013)

3.7/5 (with 27 votes)

In a tiny Alabama town with the curious name of Muscle Shoals, something miraculous sprang from the mud of the Tennessee River. A group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented, locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. During the most incendiary periods of racial hostility, white folks and black folks came together to create music that would last for generations and gave birth to the incomparable “Muscle Shoals sound.”.

Directed by Greg 'Freddy' Camalier

Leadbelly(1976)

2h 6min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the south. Even in prison he became well known for the songs he had composed and sung during and before the time he spent there.

Directed by Gordon Parks - With Roger E. Mosley

All Tied Up(1994)

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

Brian Hartley has finally found the girl of his dreams in Linda. Unfortunately, he can't convince her or himself that it's really true. When she catches him with another woman, she finally decides she's had enough and vows to never see him again. Frenzied from the loss, Brian breaks into her house to try to talk her into seeing him again, but Linda and her roommates Kim and Sharon instead bind him to the bed.

The Concert for Bangladesh(1972)

1h 43min | Music, Documentary
4.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A film about the first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise relief funds for the poor of Bangladesh. The Concert for Bangladesh was a pair of benefit concerts organised by former Beatles guitarist George Harrison and Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar. The shows were held at 2:30 and 8:00 pm on Sunday, 1 August 1971, at Madison Square Garden in New York City, to raise international awareness of, and fund relief for refugees from East Pakistan, following the Bangladesh Liberation War-related genocide.

Yokohama BJ Blues(1981)

1h 52min | Crime, Mystery, Drama, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 3 votes)

Former blues singer turned private eye, BJ becomes involved in a dangerous gang business.

Directed by Eiichi Kudo

Blues Under the Skin(1973)

1h 28min | Drama, Documentary, Music

Documentary about blues musicians.

Directed by Roviros Manthoulis
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Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters: Live at David Lynch's Festival of Disruption - 2016(2018)

56min | Music
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Robert Plant formed his current band The Sensational Space Shifters in 2012 and has been recording and touring with them ever since. Robert Plant has always introduced music from many cultures into his work and the Sensational Space Shifters blend of African rhythms and melodies, rock music, and folk roots is his latest incarnation. In October 2016 they took part in David Lynch's inaugural Festival of Disruption at the Ace Hotel Theater in Los Angeles, an event that raised funds for The David Lynch Foundation. The set featured tracks from the band's 2014 album Lullaby and...The Ceaseless Roar alongside fascinating Space Shifters re-workings of Led Zeppelin classics.

All Day and All Night: Memories from Beale Street Musicians(1990)

Blues legends B.B. King and Rufus Thomas, plus Evelyn Young, Gatemouth Moore, Fred Ford, Honeymoon Garner, Booker T. Laury, and others play jam sessions & tell stories about Memphis' Beale Street. Filmed in Memphis in the late 80's, the award-winning documentary has been lovingly remastered and restored from the original 16mm film and audio tape. A personal look at a neighborhood where the music lasted "all day and all night". It's a must-see for any music fan.

Rhythm Parade(1942)

A nightclub performer, jealous about the talents of an aspiring singer, tries to sabotage her chances at a professional career.

Directed by Howard Bretherton - With Gale Storm

Monochrome: Black, White & Blue(2017)

1h 30min | Documentary, Music
4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

From America's deep South, to Detroit and New York this captivating and enlightening documentary special traces the evolution of blues through pivotal moments in American history. Brewer discovers that there was no music called 'the blues' when its creators just stepped into a new feel of musical expressionism… just a means of releasing a lifetime of pain and oppression, from which music, momentarily, set them free.

The Long Night of Lady Day(1984)

1h 30min | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

This acclaimed documentary depicts the sad life of the greatest of all jazz singers, Billie Holiday, a life engraved with personal tragedy and ultimately shortened by drug abuse and alcoholism. Her story and career are portrayed through rare archival film and television appearances, memorable renditions of her greatest songs, and interviews with friends and colleagues.

Austin City Limits Celebrates 40 Years(2014)

1h 50min | Music

The star-studded special celebrates the trailblazing music series' 40th anniversary. With guest hosts Jeff Bridges, Matthew McConaughey and Sheryl Crow, the two-hour broadcast features memorable moments from the show's remarkable run, anchored by some of the brightest stars in the show's history returning to the AUSTIN CITY LIMITS stage for incredible performances. Highlights include legends Willie Nelson, Bonnie Raitt, Foo Fighters, Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Gary Clark Jr., Lyle Lovett, Alabama Shakes, Buddy Guy and more performing in celebration of AUSTIN CITY LIMITS' legacy as an American music institution over the last four decades.

Mustang(2016)

21min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 2 votes)

Weekend-dad Kim-Andre is trying hard to be the perfect father for his daughter Mina, but must deal with his mother when she steals the trump card of his - a newly renovated Ford Mustang.

Deep Blues(1992)

1h 31min | Documentary, Music
4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this music had nothing to do with nostalgia or record company hypes. Documentary on the Delta blues.

Directed by Robert Mugge - With Booba Barnes, R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Big Jack Johnson, Junior Kimbrough, Booker T. Laury, ...

See You in Hell, Blind Boy(1999)

A travelogue through the Mississippi delta searching for the heart and the spirit of the blues.

America's Blues(2015)

4.2/5 (with 2 votes)

America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality.

The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond(2014)

1h 23min | Documentary, Music

Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, celebrating the songs and artistry of the great folk-blues troubadour Bert Jansch.

Blues Road Movie(2001)

This film traces the road of the Blues and takes us on a journey to mythical places: From the banks of the Niger to New Orleans, going up the Mississippi through Memphis to the skyscrapers of Chicago. It tells the story of this culture which faced the worst barriers and shows that Humanity can overcome barbarity.

Eric Clapton: Sessions for Robert J(2004)

1h 37min | Music, Documentary
3.9/5 (with 3 votes)

Live, intimate, and raw, Sessions For Robert J is the essential audio/video companion to Eric Clapton's 2004 gold, Top 10 Me And Mr. Johnson, tribute to blues legend Robert Johnson. Filmed during tour rehearsals in London and Dallas plus a Los Angeles hotel room and the Dallas warehouse where Johnson made some of his final recordings, Sessions for Robert J finds Clapton performing all Robert Johnson songs with his touring band, acoustically with Doyle Bramhall II and solo-as well as discussing Johnson and his influence. A performance/documentary DVD with 14 tracks (from which the 11 CD selections are taken), Sessions for Robert J is blues heaven.

Two Trains Runnin'(2016)

3.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The search of several young, white men for blues singers who have been missing for decades coincides with the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s.

Directed by Sam Pollard

Mouthpiece(1992)

3min | Animation

The work of art in the age of genetic reproduction. Based on the practice of lip-reading, this short animated film explores the visual "code" of verbal pronunciation by animating pairs of lips cut out from magazines according to the position of the mouth in pronouncing a sound of spoken language.

The Land Where the Blues Began(1979)

An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in association with the Mississippi Authority for Educational Television and broadcast on PBS in 1980. This re-release in 2009 includes two hours of additional music.

Directed by Alan Lomax

Blues Story(2003)

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Blues Story presents an impressionistic history of one of the most lasting art forms America has ever produced - as told for the first time through the eyes of the artists who lived it. Combining exclusive interview and performance footage with vintage clips and the music of many Blues legends long gone, the history of this richly felt music is illuminated - from its African roots to its American urban expression - along with its profound place in our cultural heritage. The result is a rare, first-hand glimpse into the lives of these vanishing artists, and a moving, insightful and informative look into a music that continues to be loved by millions throughout the world.

Toot Blues(2008)

1h 14min | Documentary

In the late 1980s, Tim Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, became deeply involved in Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an off-the-grid hotbed of gritty traditional blues. He began the foundation after observing and living with the deep poverty of the Southern blues artists he befriended and championed.The foundation now helps hundreds of older Southern musicians with everything from financial assistance to tour support. The film travels back to the early artists that were the inspiration for Music Maker, and forward to the current artists carrying on the Southern roots tradition. The film features performances, archival and contemporary, of Music Maker artists on tour and in the studio, as well as interviews with the artists and Duffy on the foundation, music and the blues.

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