Keyword: record label

Stax: Soulsville USA

8.7

2024

TV

HD

In 1960s Memphis, an audacious set of interracial collaborators dared to make their own music on their own terms, forming Stax Records, one of Americas most influential creators of Black music.

High Fidelity

7.8

2000

Movie

HD

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

Control

7.9

2007

Movie

HD

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

Brown Sugar

6.5

2002

Movie

HD

Friends since childhood, a magazine editor and a hip-hop record executive stumble into romantic territory.

That Thing You Do!

7

1996

Movie

HD

A local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.

Larger than Life: Reign of the Boybands

8

2024

Movie

HD

Tracing boy bands evolution from The Beatles to K-pop, delving into the 90s/2000s icons and highlighting this enduring musical movements rich history.

Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax! Records

7.8

2018

Movie

HD

Two men taking a tribe of outsiders on a ride through the 80s underground, accidentally changing music forever.

Artifact

8.2

2012

Movie

HD

Telling harsh truths about the modern music business, this riveting and award-winning documentary gives intimate access to singer/actor Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club) and his band Thirty Seconds to Mars as they fight a relentless lawsuit with record label Virgin/EMI and write songs for their album This Is War. Opening up his life for the camera during months of excruciating pressures, Leto reveals the struggles his band must face over questions of art, money and integrity.

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

7.6

1997

Movie

HD

\It must schwing!\ was the motto of Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, two German Jewish immigrants who in 1939 set up Blue Note Records, the jazz label that was home to such greats as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon and Sonny Rollins. Blue Note, the most successful movie ever made about jazz, is a testimony to the passion and vision of these two men and certainly swings like the propulsive sounds that made their label so famous.

Prince: A Purple Reign

7.2

2011

Movie

HD

Part of BBC Fours Black Music Legends of the 1980s, this documentary explores how Prince - showman, artist, enigma - revolutionized the perception of black music in the 1980s with worldwide hits such as \1999,\ \Kiss,\ \Raspberry Beret\ and \Alphabet Street.\ He became a global sensation with the release of the Oscar-winning, semi-autobiographical movie \Purple Rain\ in 1984, embarking on an incredible journey of musical self-discovery that continues to this day.

Tupac Assassination: Battle For Compton

5.6

2017

Movie

HD

The unsolved murders of Tupac Shakur and Christopher Biggie Smalls Wallace still stir the publics imagination after 20 years. Yet law enforcement has been at a standstill to produce results. The producers of American Federale and the first two Assassination films, finally unravel the tangled cases and expose not only who may have done it, but also why these cases have never seen justice.