The Rolling Stones on Film
4 Episodes
From the beginning of their ’60s heyday, the Rolling Stones oozed rebel cool and a sense of danger that made them irresistible cinematic subjects. While their first foray into film, the tour documentary CHARLIE IS MY DARLING, presents the band as young up-and-comers in the process of finding their voice, Jean-Luc Godard’s radically experimental SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL, which documents the recording of the iconic title song, and the infamous concert-film landmark GIMME SHELTER—the dark flip side to the peace-and-love era—capture the Stones at their electrifying, counterculture-defining peak.
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1:04:56Episode 1Charlie Is My Darling
Episode 1
Directed by Peter Whitehead • 1966 • United Kingdom
Filmed during the Rolling Stones’ brief tour of Ireland in September 1965, this intimate backstage diary offers a rare look at the young Stones in the process of coming into their own. Featuring the first professionally filmed concert performan...
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1:41:25Episode 2Sympathy for the Devil
Episode 2
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard • 1968 • United Kingdom
The Rolling Stones, at the peak of their creative powers, meet Jean-Luc Godard at the advent of his radical political phase in this fractured reflection of the social unrest of the 1960s. Directed by Godard at his most defiantly provocative, SY...
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The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
Episode 3
Directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg • 1996 • United Kingdom
Filmed before a live audience in London in 1968, THE ROLLING STONES ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS was originally conceived as a BBC television special—but it would ultimately be nearly thirty years before this all-star concert-film spectacular woul...
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1:31:42Episode 4Gimme Shelter
Episode 4
Directed by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin • 1970 • United States
Called the greatest rock film ever made, this landmark documentary follows the Rolling Stones on their notorious 1969 U.S. tour. When three hundred thousand members of the Love Generation collided with a few d...
