Directed by Danny Garcia • 2022 • Spain

While CBGB has gone down in history as the epicenter of the New York City punk scene, equally formative was Max’s Kansas City, the legendary nightclub that had an indelible impact on the worlds of music, art, and fashion. At this bohemian nexus, the likes ...

Directed by Jeff Howlett and Mark Christopher Covino • 2012 • United States

Before punk took the world by storm, there was a band called Death, the project of three African American teenage brothers from Detroit, Michigan. At a time when Black music meant funk, soul, and disco, they forged a vis...

Directed by Perry Henzell • 1972 • Jamaica
Starring Jimmy Cliff, Janet Bartley, Carl Bradshaw

Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrup...

Directed by Philipp Virus • 2021 • Germany, United States

One of the most influential bands to emerge from the 1980s underground, East Coast rock legends Dinosaur Jr. laid the foundation for the grunge and alt-rock explosion of the 1990s with their ferocious mix of melody and distortion. This in...

Directed by Elizabeth Lennard • 1985 • France, Japan

Experience time, music, and Tokyo through the eyes and ears of visionary composer Ryuichi Sakamoto with this collage-like immersion into his world. Shot by Elizabeth Lennard over the course of a week in 1984, TOKYO MELODY captures the Yellow M...

Directed by Nick Canfield • 2025 • United States

In the mideighties, Swiss synth-pop duo Yello took American pop culture by storm with an offbeat anthem that became an unlikely cultural touchstone. With its glitchy electronic groove and bass-deep vocals, “Oh Yeah” was made famous by FERRIS BUELL...

Directed by Sacha Gervasi • 2008 • Canada

One of the most beloved rockumentaries of all time, this inspiring, heartfelt celebration of the human will to persevere follows Canadian heavy-metal legends Anvil, who played some of the world’s biggest stages in the 1980s and inspired the likes of Anth...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes • 2017 • United Kingdom
Starring Grace Jones

This electrifying journey through the public and private worlds of the legendary Grace Jones blends eye-popping musical performances with intimate personal footage, all brimming with Jones’s bold aesthetic. A larger-than-lif...

Directed by Erinn Springer • 2025 • United States

This previously unreleased three-screen triptych film serves as a sublimely meditative visual accompaniment to indie-folk outfit Bon Iver’s acclaimed 2024 EP of the same name. Exploring themes of solitude, reflection, and the passage from persona...

Directed by Kavery Dutta Kaul • 1988 • United States

This dynamic documentary tells the vibrant story of the West Indian musical traditions of calypso and soca through the eyes of two legendary artists: Grandmaster Lord Kitchener, who made the music a hit in London, and Calypso Rose, the first w...

Directed by Eva Aridjis Fuentes • 2025 • United States, Mexico

In the early 1990s, Diane Luckey—known by her stage name Q Lazzarus—seemed poised for stardom when her darkly ravishing synth-pop anthem “Goodbye Horses” was featured to unforgettable effect in the pop-culture sensation THE SILENCE O...

Directed by Thomas Rames • 2025 • United States, France

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE: ALIVE IN THE CATACOMBS is the cinematic realization of a dream years in the making, an audiovisual document of the band’s long-rumored performance in the tunnels of the famed Catacombs of Paris. Recorded in July 202...

Directed by Bruce Weber • 1988 • United States

Drifting dreamily between past and present, this haunting portrait of jazz trumpeter Chet Baker contrasts archival footage of the musician as an impossibly beautiful icon of cool in the 1950s with the tragically ruined heroin addict he became. Subli...

Directed by Jack Bond • 1987 • United Kingdom
Starring Neil Tennant, Chris Lowe, Joss Ackland

Perfect pop surrealism meets a deconstructed, darkly deadpan road movie in this sublimely strange and singular musical odyssey from legendary synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys. Members Neil Tennant and Chris ...

Directed by David Mingay and Jack Hazan • 1980 • United Kingdom
Starring Ray Gange, Joe Strummer, Topper Headon

Jack Hazan and David Mingay’s follow-up to their acclaimed David Hockney portrait A BIGGER SPLASH once again merges documentary and fiction, following roughneck Ray Gange as he drops h...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 1997 • United States
Starring Elliott Smith

This intimate portrait of singer-songwriter Elliott Smith features him performing three songs.

Directed by Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen • 2000 • United States

Far from a standard music documentary, Jem Cohen and Peter Sillen’s loving portrait of underground musician Benjamin Smoke—speed freak, drag queen, and a true outsider artist in every sense of the word—captures his singular personalit...

Directed by Jem Cohen • 1999 • United States
Starring Fugazi

Filmed over the course of more than ten years, from 1987 to 1998, INSTRUMENT is director Jem Cohen’s visceral, fittingly unconventional portrait of legendary DC punk band Fugazi from their origins through their electrifying prime. Capt...

Directed by D. A. Pennebaker • 1967 • United States

Bob Dylan is captured on-screen as he never would be again in this groundbreaking film from D. A. Pennebaker. The legendary documentarian finds Dylan in England during his 1965 tour, which would be his last as an acoustic artist. In this wildly...

Directed by Murray Lerner • 1967 • United States

Before WOODSTOCK and MONTEREY POP, there was FESTIVAL. From 1963 through 1966, Murray Lerner visited the annual Newport Folk Festival to document a thriving, idealistic musical movement as it reached its peak as a popular phenomenon. Joan Baez, Bo...

Directed by Nick Spitzer • 1984 • United States

Shot in rural French-speaking Louisiana, this vibrant ethnographic portrait of zydeco’s beloved musical families explores their Creole identities through engaging footage of them at home, in local clubs, at work, and running Mardi Gras. Featuring p...