• The Beatles: Get Back
  • Shake! Otis at Monterey
  • Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story
  • Cocksucker Blues
  • Woodstock

Favourite Music Documentaries

Strictly documentary movies about music or musicians. Performance documentary, biographical documentary, sociology documentary, all roughly ranked from most to least…

  • The T.A.M.I. Show
  • The Big T.N.T. Show
  • Dont Look Back
  • Festival
  • Monterey Pop
  • The Punk Singer
  • Shockumentary
  • The Decline of Western Civilization
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part III

Showdown: Music Documentaries

I only like punk and metal, apparently. And I, obviously. I have also seen every single youtube documentary about juggalos…

  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest
  • Seven Ages of Rock
  • Searching for Sugar Man
  • The Decline of Western Civilization
  • Oil City Confidential
  • Supersonic
  • Dont Look Back
  • Joy Division
  • Amy

Showdown: Music Documentaries

Showdown No.8: Great Music Documentaries. (Not biopics, not concert films, unless they have a narrative)

This was HARD. I mean…

  • The Last Waltz
  • One More Time with Feeling
  • Dont Look Back

Rings of Saturn (Showdown: Music Docs)

A genre that I need to watch more of...

Title chosen from a song on One More Time With Feeling.

  • Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
  • Metallica: A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica
  • Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
  • The Swell Season
  • Anvil! The Story of Anvil

Letterboxd Showdown: Let the Music Do the Talking

#8 Great Music Documentaries

"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."