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 performances of the band, CHARLIE IS MY DARLING captures the Stones as they travel through the Irish countryside by train—dashing from cabs to cramped, basement dressing rooms through screaming hordes of fans—and in hotel rooms, where impromptu songwriting sessions offer a chance to hear familiar classics in their infancy. The stunning concert footage—including dynamic performances of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “The Last Time,” and “Time Is on My Side”—shows the Stones developing the sound that would soon conquer the world.
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Sympathy for the Devil
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
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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Gimme Shelter
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...
