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Documentaries That Rock!!! A Comprehensive List of Music Documentaries w/ a Focus on Rock

This is a list of every rock music documentary that I have come across. I also threw in some other music documentaries than are not rock music related.

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There are 82 films in this list released in the 1980s.

  • The Rolling Stones: 25x5 - The Continuing Adventures of The Rolling Stones
  • AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
  • AC/DC: Let There Be Rock
  • Another State of Mind
  • The Beach Boys: An American Band
  • Big Time
  • Black Sabbath & Blue Öyster Cult: Black and Blue
  • Sting - Bring on the Night
  • Chuck Berry - Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll
  • The Compleat Beatles
  • David Bowie: Jazzin' for Blue Jean
  • The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
  • The Decline of Western Civilization
  • Depeche Mode 101
  • The Doors: Live at the Bowl '68
  • Duran Duran: Sing Blue Silver
  • Four American Composers: Philip Glass
  • Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music?
  • Frank Zappa: The Dub Room Special!
  • Frank Zappa: Live in Barcelona
  • Fun with the Fab Four
  • The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
  • Hard to Handle: Bob Dylan in Concert
  • Heavy Metal Parking Lot
  • Hells Angels Forever
  • Iggy Pop: Live San Fran 1981
  • Imagine: John Lennon
  • In Heaven There Is No Beer?
  • Jimi Plays Monterey
  • John Lennon: One to One Concert Live in New York
  • Johnny Cash: London 1981
  • Kiss [1980] 1980 TV Compilation
  • Kiss [1982] Videos From The Elder
  • Kiss [1988] Monsters of Rock
  • Kiss [1988] Tokyo
  • Joy Division: Here Are the Young Men
  • Led Zeppelin: On the Rock Trail
  • Let's Get Lost
  • Live Aid
  • Louie Bluie
  • Making Michael Jackson's Thriller
  • Metallica: [1983] Kiss the Stone
  • Metallica - Cliff 'Em All
  • Michael Jackson's Thriller
  • Moonwalker
  • No One Here Gets Out Alive: A Tribute To Jim Morrison
  • One Warm Line: The Legacy of Stan Rogers
  • Otis Redding: ing Otis
  • Paul Simon | Graceland: The African Concert
  • Pink Floyd - Divided We Fall - The Wall: Live At Earl‘s Court
  • Pink Floyd - Divided We Fall - The Wall: Live At Earl‘s Court
  • Pink Floyd: The Wall
  • Purple Rain
  • Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl
  • Queen Live at Wembley Stadium 1986
  • Roy Orbison and Friends: A Black and White Night
  • Shake! Otis at Monterey
  • Prince: Sign O' the Times
  • Stop Making Sense
  • Style Wars
  • Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise
  • Star Wars: Music by John Williams
  • Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
  • Surf Punks
  • Take It or Leave It
  • Ten Minutes of Silence for John Lennon
  • Terror on Tour
  • Testimony
  • Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
  • This Is Spinal Tap
  • The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels
  • U2: Rattle and Hum
  • Uncle Meat
  • Urgh! A Music War
  • A Very Lovely Party: On Tour With Paul McCartney & Wings
  • We Will Rock You
  • The Who: Live from Toronto
  • Wild Style
  • X: The Unheard Music
  • Imagine the Sound
  • This Is Elvis
  • Heartbreakers Beach Party