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As maximalist and extravagant as the musician who spawned it, Sign ‘o’ the Times is Prince’s self-directed concert film capturing the tour h

A three way split between social issue documentary, concert film, and Richard Pryor stand-up film, Wattstax captures the 1972 Wattstax Benef

Long kept behind closed doors due to creative differences and music rights, Les Blank's vivid portrait of Leon Russell and his world finally

While certainly exhibiting some striking visuals, Contemporary Color, the Ross Brothers' documentation of David Byrne's love letter to the '

Unambiguously a product of it's time, yet also a fascinating snapshot of American popular culture at the beginning of the 1930s that holds t

The paramount of concert films, Jonathan Demme captures the singular quirky stylings of New Wave band Talking Heads live and in concert with

Doubt is my bottom line. The only thing I don't doubt is my own doubt. A startlingly unique work, Gray's Anatomy finds the late, great Spald

A fittingly unique portrait of one of jazz's great musicians, Ornette: Made in America has Shirley Clarke documenting a performance of jazz

The blueprint upon which countless subsequent concert documentaries are modeled after, Murray Lerner's collage portrait of the Newport Folk

The final entry in director Penelope Spheeris’ groundbreaking Decline trilogy, The Decline of Western Civilization Part III serves as the he

The follow-up to the cult classic study of the LA hardcore punk scene, The Decline of Western Civilization, director Penelope Spheeris retur

An intimate look at the immensely influential Moroccan band Nass El Ghiwane, known as “The Rolling Stones of North Africa”, director Ahmed E

If D.A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop captured the fantastical birth of the Free Love movement of the late sixties, than the Maysles Brothers

A decidedly frank portrait of Bob Dylan’s 1965 tour of the UK, Dont Look Back (the typo is intentional) shows Dylan as he’s at the very cusp of his transition from protest folk singer to deliberately inscrutable rocker, with the album Bringing It All Back Home having just been released, and Dylan’s own prickly, contrarian, egotistical personality of the time on full display. Filmed by groundbreaking documentarian D.A. Pennebaker in the so-called “direct cinema” style (ie without any narration or explict bias), Dont Look Back set the foundation for the modern rock documentary, yet does so without any of the