Ray
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make...
release : 2004.10.29popularis : 26.822
High Fidelity
When record store owner and compulsive list-compiler Rob Gordon gets dumped by his long-time girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they...
release : 2000.03.17popularis : 14.704
That Thing You Do!
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
release : 1996.10.04popularis : 13.367
The Harder They Come
Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lands a recording contract as a reggae singer. He...
release : 1972.09.01popularis : 10.884
Control
The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour...
release : 2007.09.12popularis : 10.365
Brown Sugar
Sidney and Dre can attribute their lifelong friendship and the launch of their careers to one single childhood instant... witnessing the birth of...
release : 2002.10.05popularis : 9.579
Artifact
Follow 30 Seconds to Mars as they record their latest album, This Is War, and their battle against record label EMI.
release : 2012.09.14popularis : 8.449
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and...
release : 2023.06.07popularis : 7.082
Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records
The true story of punks, queers, & criminals on a ride with two men who accidentally changed music along the way.
release : 2018.08.16popularis : 3.973
Mogul: The Gulshan Kumar Story
Biopic of Gulshan Kumar, the founder of the Indian music company, T-Series.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 3.85
King of the Hill: A 70th Anniversary Retrospective of Cincinnati’s King Records
James Brown was the jewel in the crown, but the throne of Cincinnati’s King Records always belonged to its irascible founder, Syd Nathan. This...
release : 2014.08.08popularis : 3.377
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
"It must schwing!" was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label...
release : 1997.10.01popularis : 2.519
Prince: A Purple Reign
Part of BBC Four's Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception...
release : 2011.11.25popularis : 2.424
Talkin' Headz
The Metalheadz Documentary is an intimate and immediate account of a Drum & Bass label poised for world domination. DJs and producers talk...
release : 1998.11.23popularis : 2.103
The Sound of Philadelphia
Documentary will explore how Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell – together known as "The Mighty Three" – founded the record label...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 2.025
Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton
The unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace still stir the public's imagination after 20 years. Yet law enforcement...
release : 2017.03.07popularis : 1.808
Stax: Soulsville USA
The story of an underdog, interracial record label that ushered in groundbreaking music.
release : 2024.05.20popularis : 13.429
Alien HHH
Three ambitious men set up a hip-hop label "Alien HHH" . Against all odds, their too unbelievable tobe
release : 2023.08.16popularis : 11.63
The Battle for Black Music: Paid in Full
Charting the shocking story of how some of music’s most loved artists - from Louis Armstrong to Prince - were exploited by the music industry...
release : 2024.09.21popularis : 10.543