Joe Boyd
2021Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before
Kieran Evans
Vashti Bunyan, Andrew Loog Oldham
When modern artists embrace her forgotten album "Just Another Diamond Day," failed U.K. folk singer Vashti Bunyan experiences popularity like never before. This documentary profiles her disappointing career and astonishing resurgence 30 years later. Featuring interviews with Andrew Loog Oldham, Joe Boyd and Robert Kirby, this charming movie follows Bunyan as she takes a nostalgic road trip and prepares for the biggest concert of her life.
Vashti Bunyan: From Here to Before
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Rhodri Huw
Frank Skinner, Gerry Conway
Documentary following English folk-rock pioneers Fairport Convention as they celebrate their 45th anniversary in 2012. Fairport's iconic 1969 album Liege and Lief featured some of folk music's biggest names - including singer Sandy Denny, guitarist Richard Thompson and fiddler Dave Swarbrick - and was voted by Radio 2 listeners as the most influential folk album of all time.
Fairport Convention: Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
Jimi Hendrix
Gary Weis, John Head
Eric Clapton, Lou Reed
Made shortly after his death, this documentary explores the brief life and remarkable legacy of guitarist Jimi Hendrix. After finding fame in the U.K., Hendrix brought his act back to the U.S., where his influential playing style left a blazing imprint on a whole generation of musicians. Employing interviews with family and contemporaries, such as Eric Clapton, as well as scorching live performances from Woodstock and Isle of Wight, the film paints an indelible portrait of a rock 'n' roll legend.
Jimi Hendrix
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
Lyndy Saville
Ryan Mandrake, Will Hodgkinson
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy, the Prague Spring, the Chicago riots, the Mexico Summer Olympics, the presidential election of Richard Nixon, the Apollo 8 space mission, the hippies and the Yippies, Bullitt and the living dead. Once upon a time the year 1968.
1968: A Year of War, Turmoil and Beyond
When Albums Ruled the World
Steve O'Hagan
Joe Boyd, Richard Branson
A BBC4 Documentary on the rise and fall and resurgence of the venerable LP record, and the dynamics of marketing and consumption of music as told through artists and musicians of the classic album eras of the 60s and 70s.
When Albums Ruled the World
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Chris Rodley
Joe Boyd, Bob Geldof
Forty years after Britain's foremost 'underground' band released their debut album, 'Piper At The Gates Of Dawn', Pink Floyd remain one of the biggest brand names and best-loved bands in the world. This film features extended archive footage alongside original interviews with David Gilmour, Roger Waters, Richard Wright and Nick Mason, and traces the journey of a band that has only ever had five members, three of whom have lead the band at different stages of its evolution. BBC Program
The Pink Floyd Story: Which One's Pink?
Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture
Tom O'Dell
Joe Boyd, Mick Farren
Feature-length documentary examining the growth of the UK Counterculture in the mid-1960s, and Paul McCartney's involvement with this movement, which had a significant impact on the Beatles' music and their evolution during the latter half of the decade.
Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counterculture
Breaking Vegas
Bruce David Klein
Aaron Stanford, Staas Yudenko
Documentary tracing the attempts of a team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Institue students to become rich playing blackjack at casinos throughout the United States and the attempts of the casinos' management to thwart them.
Breaking Vegas
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall
Sonia Anderson
David Gilmour, Nick Mason
This documentary looks at the conception, design and live shows of The Wall performed by Pink Floyd in 1980 and 1981. It features in-depth 1980s era interviews with Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Nick Mason and shows footage of The Wall performed at Earl's Court in 1980. It also features archival footage of the Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd and discusses how David Gilmour was brought into the band to initially augment their live shows when Syd became unreliable due to his drug problem and how Gilmour ultimately replaced him.
Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall
