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2013 • Documentary
A documentary that reveals how a forgotten record by the Incredible Bongo Band helped cement the foundation of hip hop when DJ Herc extended its percussion by playing them back…
Why matched: genres Documentary
All Things Must Pass
2015 • Documentary
The explosive trajectory and tragic demise of iconic music retailer Tower Records, and the legacy of its rebellious founder Russ Solomon. Two hundred stores in thirty countries…
Why matched: genres Documentary
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown
2014 • Music • Documentary
James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of the most influential artists…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Bad 25
2012 • Music • Documentary
Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and inter…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Soul
2020 • Music • Drama • Animation
Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul f…
Why matched: genres Music, Drama
Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton: This Is Stones Throw Records
2013 • Music • Documentary
Under the direction of founder and world-renowned DJ Peanut Butter Wolf, Stones Throw Records has consistently released critically acclaimed, left-of-center albums since its fou…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
A Band Called Death
2013 • Music • Documentary
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 bl…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
American Symphony
2023 • Music • Documentary
Musician Jon Batiste attempts to compose a symphony as his wife, writer Suleika Jaouad, undergoes cancer treatment.
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Someone Great
2019 • Romance • Comedy
An aspiring music journalist lands her dream job and is about to move to San Francisco when her boyfriend of nine years decides to call it quits. To nurse her broken heart, she…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping
2016 • Music • Comedy
When his new album fails to sell records, pop/rap superstar Conner4real goes into a major tailspin and watches his celebrity high life begin to collapse. He'll try anything to b…
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy
Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
2011 • Music • Documentary
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have kept a generat…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Dave Chappelle's Block Party
2005 • Music • Comedy • Documentary
The American comedian/actor delivers a story about the alternative Hip Hop scene. A small town Ohio mans moves to Brooklyn, New York, to throw an unprecedented block party.
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
2021 • Music • History • Documentary
During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and uni…
Why matched: genres Music, History
One World: Together at Home
2020 • Music • Documentary
A global broadcast & digital special organized by Global Citizen and the World Health Organization featuring comedians, musicians, and actors to raise funds in support of front…
Why matched: genres Music, Documentary
Bamboozled
2000 • Drama • Comedy
Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show.…
Why matched: genres Drama, Comedy
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
2025 • Music • Comedy
The now estranged bandmates of Spinal Tap are forced to reunite for one final concert, hoping it will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.
Why matched: genres Music, Comedy
Brown Sugar
2002 • Romance • Comedy
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of hip-hop on a New York street co…
Why matched: genres Romance, Comedy