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1. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Music
Singer Dewey Cox overcomes adversity to become a musical legend.
Director: Jake Kasdan | Stars: John C. Reilly, Jenna Fischer, David Krumholtz, Nat Faxon
Votes: 77,622 | Gross: $18.32M
2. Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)
Documentary, History, Music
Soundbreaking explores the history of recorded music. Featuring more than 150 original interviews, the series charts a century's worth of innovation and experimentation, and offers a behind-the-scenes look at the birth of brand new sounds.
Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Todd Boyd, Questlove, Don Was
Votes: 1,430
3. Home Movie (2001)
TV-14 | 66 min | Documentary
Documentary look at five unusual homes and the people who built (or adapted) them.
Director: Chris Smith | Stars: Ed Peden, Ben Skora, Diana Peden, Linda Beech
Votes: 772 | Gross: $0.12M
4. Lightning in a Bottle (2004)
PG-13 | 103 min | Documentary, Music
Antoine Fuqua's documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Buddy Guy, Solomon Burke, Mavis Staples
Votes: 741 | Gross: $0.20M
5. City Confidential (1998–2023)
TV-14 | 50 min | Crime, Documentary
City Confidential features real life stories in a wide variety of American cities. While many of these stories deal with murder, some also deal with attempted murder, and public officials caught in compromising situations, among other things. The cities featured vary widely in size, from the smallest village to the largest urban areas.
Stars: Paul Winfield, Keith David, Mike Colter, David Madison
Votes: 721
6. American Epic (2015– )
TV-14 | 310 min | Documentary, History, Music
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts set out across America to capture the breadth of American music and discovered the artists that would shape our world.
Stars: Taj Mahal, Robert Redford, Jack White, Nas
Votes: 231
7. The Search for Robert Johnson (1992 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 72 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson.
Director: Chris Hunt | Stars: Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, John Hammond, Gayle Dean Wardlow
Votes: 159
8. The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (2008 TV Special)
Director: Louis J. Horvitz | Stars: Caroline Kennedy, Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Barbra Streisand
Votes: 130
9.
Soundbreaking: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Recorded Music (2016)
Episode:
Going Electric
(2016)
52 min | Documentary, History, Music
Tells the story of how electricity has been harnessed and channeled to create new and never-before-heard sounds, tracing both the chain reaction unleashed by the invention of the electric guitar and the evolution of synthesized music.
Directors: James Manera, Maro Chermayeff, Jeff Dupre | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Roger Daltrey, Roger Waters, Steven Van Zandt
Votes: 75
10. The Big Bang (2017)
110 min | Documentary, Biography, History
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts and their new technology scoured the rural corners of America in search of the music of everyday folk. This is the never-before-told story of the first time America heard itself.
Director: Bernard MacMahon | Stars: Robert Redford, Jack White, Nas, Honeyboy Edwards
Votes: 32
11. Blues Story (2003 TV Movie)
90 min | Documentary
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. ... See full summary »
Director: Jay Levey | Stars: Bobby Bland, Charles Brown, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown, Ruth Brown
Votes: 27
12. 10 Days Out: Blues from the Backroads (2007 Video)
Unrated | 107 min | Documentary
Kenny Wayne Shepherd's reverence for his musical roots are center-stage on Ten Days Out...Blues From The Backroads. The guitar-slinger is featured with the Double Trouble rhythm section of ... See full summary »
Director: Noble Jones | Stars: Etta Baker, Honeyboy Edwards, Buddy Flett, Henry Gray
Votes: 27
13.
American Epic (2015– )
Episode:
The Big Bang
(2017)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary, History, Music
When a music scout travels to Tennessee in 1927, he ignites not only the "Big Bang" of Country music but also the "Big Bang" of rhythm and blues.
Director: Bernard MacMahon | Stars: Robert Redford, Dale Jett, Fern Salyer, Michael Brooks
Votes: 27
14.
American Epic (2015– )
Episode:
Blood and Soil
(2017)
TV-14 | 57 min | Documentary, History, Music
In 1927 a sanctified preacher unites a southern town and inspires Bebop, coal-miners use music to rebel against their cruel working conditions, and a wild bluesman emancipates the Mississippi Delta.
Director: Bernard MacMahon | Stars: Robert Redford, Bernard MacMahon, Ted Bradley, Donnie Chapman
Votes: 19
15. Folk America (2009– )
Documentary
Three-part history of American roots music.
Stars: Bernard Hill, Tom Paxton, Mike Seeger, John Cohen
Votes: 18
16. Delta Rising: A Blues Documentary (2008)
79 min | Documentary
Delta Rising tells the story of Clarksdale and its importance to the blues, America's classical music. This story is told through the experiences of various musicians in and around ... See full summary »
Directors: Michael Afendakis, Laura Bernieri | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Willie Nelson, Ruby Wilson, Bill Luckett
Votes: 7
17.
City Confidential (1998–2023)
Episode:
Greenwood: The Devil and the Delta Blues
(2000)
TV-14 | Crime, Documentary
Robert Johnson was the king of the blues, and in 1938 he returned to Greenwood for a last gig before heading to the big time in New York. But he was mysteriously poisoned, and the killer was never found.
Stars: Lucy Cooper, Ruben Hughes, Super Chikan, Will Long
Votes: 7
18.
Folk America (2009– )
Episode:
Birth of a Nation
(2009)
Documentary
Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.
Director: Jill Nicholls | Stars: Bernard Hill, Cecil Brown, Slim Bryant, John Cohen
Votes: 6
19. Smart (1985)
51 min | Documentary, Music
About the blues-infused life story of seventy-year-old American blues guitarist David 'Honeyboy' Edwards. A comparison between his life and that of the Dutch Singer without a Name, the queen of the tearjerker.
Director: Joost Kraanen | Stars: Taildragger Blues Band, Blind James Brewer, Honeyboy Edwards, Johnny Little John
20.
Folk America (2009– )
Episode:
This Land is Your Land
(2009)
Documentary
Three-part documentary series on American folk music, tracing its history from the recording boom of the 1920s to the folk revival of the 1960s.
Director: Jill Nicholls | Stars: Bernard Hill, John Cohen, Steve Earle, Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon