A Concerto Is a Conversation
7.1
2020
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A virtuoso jazz pianist and film composer tracks his familys lineage through his 91-year-old grandfather from Jim Crow Florida to the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Betty : They Say I’m Different
7.2
2017
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Funk Queen Betty Davis changed the landscape for female artists in America. She was the first... as former husband Miles Davis said. Madonna before Madonna, Prince before Prince. An aspiring songwriter from a small steel town, Betty arrived on the 70s scene to break boundaries for women with her daring personality, iconic fashion and outrageous funk music. She befriended Jimi Hendrix and Sly Stone, wrote songs for the Chambers Brothers and the Commodores, and married Miles - startlingly turning him from jazz to funk on the album she named Bitches Brew. She then, despite being banned and boycotted, went on to become the first black woman to perform, write and manage herself. Betty was a feminist pioneer, inspiring and intimidating in a manner like no woman before. Then suddenly - she just vanished. Betty Mabry Davis is a global icon whose mysterious life story has until now, never been told. Creatively blending documentary, animation and nonfiction techniques, this movie traces the path of Bettys life, how she grew from humble upbringings to become a fully self-realized black female pioneer the world failed to understand or appreciate, revealing the mystery of her 35-year disappearance and her battle with mental illness and poverty. After years of trying, the elusive Betty, forever the free-spirited Black Power Goddess, finally allowed the filmmakers to creatively tell her story based on their conversations.
Bombshells and Dollies
2
2020
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Feature length Documentary on the Contemporary Pinup Girl Lifestyle and The Miss Viva Las Vegas Pinup Contest - Celebrating every womans right to total body acceptance, to be self-confident and to be gorgeous!
Definitely Dusty
7.9
1999
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Friends and colleagues talk about the life and career of the enigmatic and iconic British singer Dusty Springfield.
Rock 'n' Roll Revue
3
1955
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Packed with music by the greats of the time.
Cow-Cow Boogie
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1942
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Dorothy Dandridge and band perform \Cow-Cow Boogie\.
Kate Bush at the BBC
8.2
2014
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Kate Bush performs songs such as Wuthering Heights, Babooshka and Running up That Hill on BBC TV shows, alongside other intriguing and lesser-known material in the BBC studios.
L7: Pretend We're Dead
7.3
2016
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A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pioneers of American grunge punk: L7.
Serenade
5.7
1956
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Damon Vincenti, a young vineyard worker, has a beautiful tenor voice and dreams of becoming a great opera singer. He debuts at Lardellis Italian restaurant in San Francisco, where he is spotted by Kendall Hale, a society girl who enjoys launching young artists while making them her lovers before dumping them after use. Damon is no exception to the rule: he becomes famous but Kendall leaves him abruptly. He feels so affected that he must give up singing. In Mexico, where he has got back in touch with his inner self, Damon meets Juana Montès.They are happy and get married. But Kendall is still around...
Music to Madness: The Story of Komitas
7.2
2019
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Born on September 26, 1869 in the Armenian homeland of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, Komitas was a frail, weak boy, but with a perfect singing voice. Despite humble life circumstances, it was his voice that brought Komitas to the Holy See of Echmiadzin where, not being able to speak Armenian because it was forbidden by the Turks, Komitas addressed the supreme bishop, Catholicos Gevorg IV, I dont speak Armenian, if you wish I will sing. His genius apparent, Komitas went on to study at the music college in Tiflis (Tbilisi), Georgia, then to Constantinople, Berlin, and Paris. Renowned musicians of the day, Vincent dIndy, Gabriel Faure, and Camille Saint-Saens, were entranced by Komitass music. The French composer Claude Debussi, following a concerto by Komitas, exclaimed, Brilliant father Komitas! I bow before your musical genius! The driving quest of Komitass passion, his dream, was to bring to the world the music and folklore, both ancient and modern, of Armenian culture. He would travel the countryside of his Armenian homeland in search of not only Armenian songs and dance, but also that of the Kurds, Turks, and Persians. Komitas would meticulously record and interpret these gems of Anatolian culture to a wider European audience. Had Komitas been allowed to live out his life in fulfillment of his dream, what wonderful music can only be imagined. Tragically, this was not to be. Instead Komitas found himself a part of the other Armenian intellectuals and community leaders of Constantinople that were taken to a death march on the night of April 24, 1915. What Komitas experienced, the abject brutality and torture, defies description. Although spared death because of the intervention of influential Europeans and Americans, the experience led Komitas on a descent into madness. He was put into a French psychiatric hospital in 1916 where he spent the remaining years of his life until his death in 1935.
Living On Soul
7.7
2017
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Filmed during their three-night, sold-out residency at the historic Apollo Theater, this hybrid docu-concert film features the late great Sharon Jones, Charles Bradley and the rest of the Grammy-nominated Daptone Records family.
How to Commit Marriage
4
1969
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Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The babys Mothers parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name.
Welcome to Death Row
7.3
2001
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The true story of the rise and fall of Death Row Records.
Céline
4.6
2008
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A biopic on singer Céline Dion.
Song Without End
5
1960
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The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt (Sir Dirk Bogarde), whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Breakfast in Hollywood
5.5
1946
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The goings on of a few members of a radio shows audience is the premise for this feature film derived from the popular ABC radio show of the 1940s. This film features Tom Breneman, the radio shows host, as well as Bonita Granville, Beulah Bondi, Zasu Pitts, Billie Burke and Hedda Hopper. Musical performances are provided by Nat King Cole and the King Cole Trio, along with Spike Jones and his City Slickers.
Little Love Song
6.1
2019
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Inspired by a hit song by Mongol800, there is a small town in Okinawa where the US occupation forces are stationed and have fenced off their base. A popular high school band is scouted by a Tokyo-based record company. The band is involved in a car accident, however, shattering many hopes. The band receives a demo tape from a girl who lives on the navy base. They are reinvigorated.
Ornette: Made in America
6.6
1985
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It captures Ornettes evolution over three decades. Returning home to Fort Worth, Texas in 1983, it chronicles his boyhood in segregated Texas and his subsequent emergence as an American cultural pioneer and world-class icon.
Mighty Uke
7.3
2010
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Mighty Uke travels the world to discover why so many people of different nations, cultures, ages and musical tastes are turning to the ukulele to express themselves, connect with the past, and with each other.
Johnny Cash: American Rebel
8.2
2015
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Johnny Cash: American Rebel is built around 12 essential Johnny Cash tracks spanning four decades that each deliver the passion, musicality and messages against war, injustice, racism and prejudice, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Jackson,” “San Quentin,” “Man in Black,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Ring of Fire” and “Hurt.” Each song illustrates a chapter in his life, as well the story of an ever-changing America from the 1950s to modern day, as told through interviews, archival concert footage, photographs and personal artifacts from the Cash family.
George White's Scandals
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1945
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This Broadway revue is about two love affairs. The romance between the comedienne Joan Mason and Jack Evans of Boston is easily disturbed by Jacks cynical sister Clarabelle Evans, who is against their relationship. The romance between wealthy British Jill Martin and Tom McGrath, the assistant to impresario George White Brodway is a love/hate relationship. Gene Krupa and his band, with virtuoso organist Ethel Smith, keep both couples dancing continuously.
You're a Sweetheart
3
1937
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Hal Adams tries to win the heart of Broadway star Betty Bradley.
I'll Name the Murderer
5
1936
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When a nightclub singer is murdered, a local gossip columnist begins his own investigation.
Lillian Russell
6
1940
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Life story of the musical star from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor till her retirement in 1912 when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.