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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 • Music • Documentary
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of tha…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005 • Music • Documentary
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Pull My Daisy
1959 • Drama • Comedy
Based on an incident in the life of Beat icon Neal Cassady and his wife, the painter Carolyn, the film tells the story of a railway brakeman whose wife invites a respected bisho…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Before Stonewall
1984 • History • Documentary
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969…
Why matched: genres History, Documentary
Burroughs: The Movie
1984 • Documentary
An exploration of Burroughs’ life story, as told by Burroughs himself along with many of his contemporaries, including Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, Francis Bacon, Herbert Huncke…
Matched on: Ginsberg
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000 • Documentary
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Lost, Lost, Lost
1976 • Documentary
Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the struggle to build a new life in New Y…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Dont Look Back
1967 • Music • Documentary
In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is surrounded by teen fans, gets into heated philosophical jousts with journalis…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
2010 • Documentary
A riveting and emotional journey into the world of writer William S. Burroughs, a man considered as cold as an iceberg on a winter night.
Why matched: genres Documentary
Diaries, Notes, and Sketches
1968 • Documentary
Also known as Walden, Jonas Mekas’s first diary film is a six-reel chronicle of his life in 1960s New York, interweaving moments with family, friends, lovers, and artistic idols…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Howl
2010 • Drama
It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events tha…
Matched on: Ginsberg
The Velvet Underground
2021 • Music • Documentary
Experience the iconic rock band's legacy in the first major documentary to tell their story. Directed with the era’s avant-garde spirit by Todd Haynes, this kaleidoscopic oral h…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
How the Beatles Changed the World
2017 • Music • Documentary
The fascinating story of the cultural, social, spiritual, and musical revolution ignited by the coming of the Beatles. Tracing the impact that these four band members had, first…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Ciao! Manhattan
1973 • Drama • Documentary
Fiction and documentary mingle in a freewheeling portrait of Susan Superstar, a New York celebrity on a drug-fueled downward slide that mirrors Edie Sedgwick’s own self-destruct…
Why matched: genres Drama, Documentary
Take Your Pills
2018 • Documentary
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?
Why matched: genres Documentary