Best "rockumentary" Movies of All Time

42 movies found (page 1/2):

A Band Called Death(2013)

3.6/5 (with 35 votes)

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early '70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them.

Directed by Mark Christopher Covino, Jeff Howlett

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It Might Get Loud(2008)

| 1h 37min | Documentary, Music

3.6/5 (with 74 votes)

A documentary on the electric guitar from the point of view of three significant rock musicians: the Edge, Jimmy Page and Jack White.

Directed by Davis Guggenheim - With Jimmy Page, The Edge, Jack White

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In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50(2022)

1h 26min | Documentary, Music

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

The film explores the “acute suffering” and transcendent glory experienced by current and former members of King Crimson, allowing the audience an intimate and sometimes uncomfortable insight into the musicians’ experience as they confront life and death head on in the world’s most demanding rock band.

Directed by Toby Amies

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice(2019)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Documentary

3.9/5 (with 11 votes)

With one of the most memorably stunning voices that has ever hit the airwaves, Linda Ronstadt burst onto the 1960s folk rock music scene in her early twenties.

Directed by Rob Epstein

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records(2017)

1h 35min | Documentary, History, Music

3.9/5 (with 6 votes)

The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.

The Get Lost Losers(2022)

| 1h 37min | Comedy, Music, Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

THE GET LOST LOSERS follows the most cantankerous rock band in Hollywood as it prepares for a super-clutch industry showcase and one last shot at fame. Official Selection: Montauk Film Festival & Culver City Film Festival. Winner at FOTA, The Canadian Cinematography Awards and The Studio City Film Festival.

Document: A Film About Malojian(2016)

1h 14min | Music, Documentary

5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Featuring legendary recording engineer Steve Albini, 'Document: A film about Malojian' captures the energy of a band at the top of their game, as they rush to complete their third album, "This is Nowhere", in just four days.

What Drives Us(2021)

1h 28min | Documentary, Music

3.4/5 (with 10 votes)

The stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the idiocy and chaos, of their time on the road. While the world has changed, the custom has not changed. There is no other way to know whether you can make it in this business. You have to get in the van.

Long Live Rock... Celebrate the Chaos(2021)

1h 23min | Documentary, Music

3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

Featuring exclusive interviews with the leading titans of rock that include: Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Slipknot, Korn, Avenged Sevenfold, Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Prophets Of Rage, Greta Van Fleet, Halestorm, and many, many more, "Long Live Rock" is a deep dive into the fandom of this often misunderstood but beloved genre of music.

I Don't Believe in Anarchy(2014)

1h 18min | Documentary

3.1/5 (with 4 votes)

The film details the early years of the legendary Siberian Punk/Rock group 'Гражданская Оборона' (Grazhdanskaya Oborona), and its frontman, Egor Letov.

Directed by Natalia Chumakova

Put More Blood Into the Music(1988)

2h | Documentary, Music

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

PBS produced documentary in two parts: the first is dedicated to saxophonist and composer John Zorn; the second is about Sonic Youth at the height of their powers in 1988.

Flight of the Conchords: A Texan Odyssey(2006)

44min | Comedy, Documentary

3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Flight of the Conchords embark on a revealing and hilarious odyssey into the political and musical heart of the United States of America, as they make their debut at the SXSW music festival.

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Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio(2008)

1h 30min | Documentary, Music, History

The 50 year struggle between rock pioneers and powerful business/government interests for the soul of music radio, told by America's favorite deejays and the artists they made rock stars.

Jack Jack - The real rockstar dies on the first band practice(2008)

1h 36min | Music, Documentary

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A rockumentary about four Hungarian musician: Mester Tamás, Papp Szabi, Ganxsta Zolee and Tóth Tibi. They moved in together for seven weeks to record an album, put together a concert while they were recorded by the crew who made a music documentary film of the whole work.

Metallica: Masters of Metal(2014)

1h 6min | Documentary, Music

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

They are one of the most influential heavy metal bands of all time. Alongside Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth, the Masters of Metal are an important part of the "big four". Over 100 million record sales worldwide, they are one of the most commercially successful bands of all time. With a career that spans over 33 years, the band created by James Hatfield and Lars Ulrich as renamed a genre after themselves. From the early days in a garage to the successful heights of sell out stadium tours, they redesigned the concept of heavy metal music. This is the all access story about their journey. All rise to Metallica, the Masters of Metal.

Driver 23(1999)

| 1h 12min | Documentary

Dan Cleveland, a Minneapolis-based rock guitarist/deliveryman meets obstacles to his musical ambitions with uncanny determination, perseverance, and strange "inventions.".

The Beatles: Parting Ways(2009)

53min | Documentary, Music, Music

Parting Ways treats The Beatles with the respect they deserve and details their lives since the world's number one band fell apart.

Dreams to Remember: The Legacy of Otis Redding(2007)

1h 32min | Documentary, Music

3.4/5 (with 2 votes)

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Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story(2011)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music

3.1/5 (with 2 votes)

Gatling Pictures' "Cure for Pain: The Mark Sandman Story" examines the life and work of Mark Sandman, deceased frontman of Boston "low rock" band Morphine. From his Newton, Mass., roots to his travels across America and around the globe, Sandman left an indelible imprint as one of the most distinctive musicians of his generation. Along with revisiting the "unique and sultry sound" of his music, the film explores the meaning of family through this critically praised and personally conflicted singer, songwriter and innovative instrumentalist.

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Encore(2014)

1h 36min | Documentary, Music

Many many words have been written and a few ingenious TV documentaries have been filmed about the great Russian rock band Auktyon ("Аукцыон"), which recently celebrated 30 years of playing music. Everything is completely different in the case of the film Encore: it took seven years for the director, Dmitry Lavrinenko, to make it; he needed just that amount of time to capture the wayward grace still preserved by Fyodorov, Garkusha, Ozersky and their associates. If you look behind the powerful music facade, you find not a story of a band but chronicles of a voyage aimed at incredible, incomparable music. Encore shows how the songs which are now known by heart were composed; it also shows things generally left aside: pieces of everyday life, tour diaries, conversations, including the key phrase: "You should not look at the liberty too much, you might feel dizzy.".

Narrien illat(1970)

1h 40min | Drama, Comedy, Music

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The ups and downs of the popular music world are revealed to a singer.

Directed by Tapio Suominen - With Markku Suominen

The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players: Off & On Broadway(2006)

| 50min | Documentary, Music

A documentary on the vaudevillian art-pop band.

Lust For Glorious(1997)

27min | Comedy

Rockumentary spoof starring Eddie Izzard.

Trapped Time(2017)

1h 54min | Documentary, Music

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Petar Peca Popović is one of the greatest, most famous, most authoritative and for sure, the best, connoisseur of Rock and Roll in the former Yugoslavia. He promoted Rock and Roll in those heroic times. We are going on a peculiar kind of trip with him, along an "emotional homeland", of ex-Yu, "searching for the lost times" and dear friends, the most significant representatives of this culture - rock'n'roll legends.

Pavement: Slow Century(2002)

1h 25min | Documentary, Music

3.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Documentary tracing the existence of noted rock band Pavement from 1989 to their final performance in late 1999. The DVD also compiles all of their music videos, rare live footage, audio commentary from the band and directors, and two live concerts available with multiple angles.

Directed by Tom Surgal, Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs, Dan Koretzky, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, ... - With Stephen Malkmus