10 Great Documentaries celebrate the Power of Music
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- DirectorMichele NobleStarsTheodore BikelTamara BrooksMerima KljucoJourney 4 Artists demonstrates how the power of music has the ability to elevate and educate people of different cultures to go beyond their divergent religious, political, and ideological boundaries in the name of peace.22 songs, 13 cultures, 9 languages. Journey 4 Artists is a documentary which explores through song, interviews, personal histories and visual narrative the power of music to illuminate, transport and transcend the artists and audience beyond divergent religious, political and ideological boundaries towards tolerance, peace and acceptance. Featuring the lives and music of Theodore Bikel, Tamara Brooks, Merima Kljuco and Shura Lipovsky directed and produced by Michele Noble.
www.journey4artists.com - DirectorJim BrownStarsJoan BaezJohnny CashBill ClintonInterviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.
- DirectorThom ZimnyStarsMike AppelRoy BittanClarence ClemonsTakes us into the studio with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band for the recording of their fourth album.
- DirectorMalik BendjelloulStarsRodriguezStephen 'Sugar' SegermanDennis CoffeyTwo South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.
- StarsDon HenleyGlenn FreyDon FelderThe life and times of the super successful American soft-rock band, Eagles.
- DirectorD.A. PennebakerStarsBob DylanAlbert GrossmanBob NeuwirthDocumentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
- DirectorAlbert MayslesDavid MayslesCharlotte ZwerinStarsMick JaggerKeith RichardsMick TaylorWhen three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few dozen Hells Angels at San Francisco's Altamont Speedway, the bloody slash that transformed a decade's dreams into disillusionment was immortalized on this film.
- DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsNeil YoungEmmylou HarrisPegi YoungA film shot over during a two-night performance by Neil Young at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium.
- DirectorAndrea Blaugrund NevinsStarsTony AdolescentArt AlexakisTony CadenaWhat happens when a generation's ultimate anti-authoritarians -- punk rockers-- become society's ultimate authorities -- dads? With a large chorus of Punk Rock's leading men - Blink-182's Mark Hoppus, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Rise Against's Tim McIlrath - The Other F Word follow, Jim Lindberg, 20-year veteran of skate punk band Pennywise, on his hysterical and moving journey from belting his band's anthem, 'Fuck Authority', to embracing his ultimately pivotal authoritarian role in mid-life, fatherhood.
- DirectorRoberta GrossmanStarsHarry BelafonteRegina SpektorGlen CampbellA documentary on the history, mystery, and meaning of the ubiquitous Jewish standard that follows the around-the-world journey of the song from Ukraine to Youtube. of the song "Hava Nagila."