Taj Mahal

The American Epic Sessions

Bernard MacMahon

Jack White, T Bone Burnett

Jack White and T Bone Burnett invite today’s greatest artists to test their skills against the long-lost machine that recorded their musical idols and forebears. The producers have, over a decade rebuilt, a 1920s recording system, timed by a weight-driven system of clockwork gears. Stripped of the comforts and security of modern technology, Nas, Elton John, Alabama Shakes, Steve Martin Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard, are among the artists who have three minutes and one chance to get their music etched into a revolving wax disc, before the weight hits the floor. The results are career defining performances and the very definition of "Lighting In A Bottle".

All My Friends - Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman

Gregg Allman, Warren Haynes

All My Friends: Celebrating the Songs & Voice of Gregg Allman captures a once-in-a-lifetime performance, honoring one of the most acclaimed and beloved icons in rock and roll history. A founding member of the Allman Brothers Band and successful solo artist in his own right, Allman possesses a voice that has resonated through four decades.

Blind Willie's Blues: A Documentary Film

David Fulmer

Blind Willie McTell, Ahmet Ertegün

Also known as Georgia Blues, this is a biopic of influential bluesman Blind Willie McTell.

Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World

Catherine Bainbridge, Alfonso Maiorana

Robbie Robertson, Buffy Sainte-Marie

Documentary about the role of Native Americans in popular music history, a little-known story built around the incredible lives and careers of the some of the greatest music legends.

The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards

A 1968 event put together by The Rolling Stones. The film is comprised of two concerts on a circus stage and included such acts as The Who, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and Jethro Tull. John Lennon and his fiancee Yoko Ono performed as part of a supergroup called The Dirty Mac, along with Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell, and Keith Richards.

Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz

Andreas Morell, Julian Benedikt

Freddie Hubbard, Gil Mellé

"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.

Sounder

Martin Ritt

Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield

The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.

Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored

Tim Reid

Al Freeman, Jr., Phylicia Rashād

This film relates the story of a tightly connected Afro-American community informally called Colored Town where the inhabitants live and depend on each other in a world where racist oppression is everywhere, as told by a boy called Cliff who spent his childhood there. Despite this, we see the life of the community in all its joys and sorrows, of those that live there while others decide to leave for a better life north. For those remaining, things come to a serious situation when one prominent businessman is being muscled out by a white competitor using racist intimidation. In response, the community must make the decision of whether to submit meekly like they always have, or finally fight for their rights.

Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band

Daniel Roher

Robbie Robertson, Martin Scorsese

A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.

Songcatcher

Maggie Greenwald

Janet McTeer, Michael Goodwin

After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads, songs that have been handed down from generation to generation, preserved intact by the seclusion of the mountains. With the goal of securing her promotion, Lily ventures into the most isolated areas of the mountains to collect the songs and finds herself increasingly enchanted.

Buffy Sainte-Marie: A Multimedia Life

Joan Prowse

Buffy Sainte-Marie, Joni Mitchell

Buffy Sainte-Marie is best known for her protest songs (Universal Soldier) and her love songs (Up Where We Belong). This one-hour documentary chronicles her remarkable career as she rises to prominence in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk music scene and blazes a groundbreaking path as an Aboriginal-rights advocate, digital artist and Oscar-winning songwriter.

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

Daniel Mann

Val Kilmer, Sônia Braga

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads

Brian Oakes

Keith Richards, Keb' Mo'

Robert Johnson was one of the most influential blues guitarists ever. Even before his early death, fans wondered if he'd made a pact with the Devil.

Killer Diller

Tricia Brock

William Lee Scott, Lucas Black

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a group of reluctant halfway house convicts into The Killer Diller Blues Band.

Scott Joplin

Jeremy Kagan

Billy Dee Williams, Clifton Davis

The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

Peter Hewitt

Киану Ривз, Alex Winter

Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.