1 | The {{Documentary}}, only based around rock/pop music and those who perform it, officially known as a video album. These can be an analysis of the culture or industry surrounding music or can focus on a single band. This naturally overlaps with the concert film or live [=DVD=]. |
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3 | The exact distinction of a Rockumentary can be difficult to draw. A full-blown live show wouldn't count unless it contains an actual documentary portion (observations, interviews, hand-held-camera sections, history etc.) A concert inter cut with backstage footage and documentary-like segments would be borderline. |
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5 | Also see Website/{{Wikipedia}}'s [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockumentary article on it]]. |
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7 | !!Rockumentaries about bands and artists: |
8 | [[index]] |
9 | * [[/index]]Music/{{ACDC}}[[index]], ''Family Jewels'' |
10 | * ''Film/AnvilTheStoryOfAnvil'' |
11 | * [[/index]]Music/ArminVanBuuren[[index]], ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRiHUWWcR98 A Year With Armin Van Buuren]]'' |
12 | * [[/index]]Music/AvengedSevenfold[[index]], ''All Excess''. |
13 | * [[/index]]Music/TheBand[[index]], ''Film/TheLastWaltz'' |
14 | * [[/index]] Music/BarenakedLadies[[index]], ''Barenaked in America'' |
15 | * [[/index]]Music/TheBeatles[[index]], ''Film/LetItBe'' |
16 | ** ''Music/TheBeatlesAnthology''. |
17 | ** ''Series/TheBeatlesGetBack'' (a ReCut and expansion of the footage originally shot for ''Let It Be'') |
18 | ** ''Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years''. |
19 | * [[/index]]Music/BigStar[[index]], ''Nothing Can Hurt Me'' |
20 | * [[/index]]Music/TheBlackCrowes[[index]], "Who Killed That Bird Out on Your Window Sill." |
21 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Blur}}[[index]], ''No Distance Left to Run'' |
22 | * [[/index]]Music/DavidBowie[[index]], ''Cracked Actor'' |
23 | * [[/index]]Music/{{BTS}}[[index]], ''Series/BurnTheStage'' (series and film) |
24 | * [[/index]]Music/JeffBuckley[[index]], ''Amazing Grace'' |
25 | * [[/index]]Music/BuenaVistaSocialClub[[index]], ''Music/BuenaVistaSocialClub'' |
26 | * [[/index]]Music/DavidByrne[[index]], ''American Utopia'' |
27 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Chicago}}[[index]], ''Now More Than Ever'' |
28 | * [[/index]]Music/TheClash[[index]], ''Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten'', ''The Rise and Fall of the Clash'' |
29 | ** '' Westway To The World''. |
30 | * [[/index]]Music/JoeCocker[[index]], ''Film/MadDogsAndEnglishmen''. |
31 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Descendents}}[[index]], ''Filmage'' |
32 | * [[/index]]Music/TheDecemberists[[index]], ''A Practical Handbook'' |
33 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Disturbed}}[[index]], ''M.O.L.'', ''D.O.D.'' |
34 | * [[/index]]Music/TheDoors[[index]], ''When You're Strange'' |
35 | * [[/index]]Music/DuranDuran[[index]], ''Sing Blue Silver'', ''Three to Get Ready'', ''Extraordinary World'' |
36 | * [[/index]]Music/BobDylan[[index]], ''Film/DontLookBack'' |
37 | * [[/index]]Music/ElectricSix[[index]], ''Absolute Treasure'' |
38 | * [[/index]]Music/FlamingLips[[index]], ''The Fearless Freaks'' |
39 | * [[/index]]Music/FooFighters[[index]], ''Back and Forth'' |
40 | * [[/index]]Music/GaryGlitter[[index]], ''Remember Me This Way''. |
41 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Genesis|Band}}[[index]], ''Come Rain or Shine'', ''Together and Apart'' |
42 | * [[/index]]Music/GeorgeHarrison[[index]], ''Living in the Material World'' |
43 | * [[/index]]Music/InsaneClownPosse[[index]], ''Shockumentary'', ''A Family Underground'' |
44 | * [[/index]]Music/IronMaiden[[index]], ''12 Wasted Years'', ''The Early Days'', ''Flight 666'' |
45 | * [[/index]]Music/MichaelJackson[[index]], ''Film/MichaelJacksonsThisIsIt'' |
46 | * [[/index]]Music/JeanMichelJarre[[index]], ''Making the Steamroller Fly'' (can be found on the ''Oxygen in Moscow'' live VHS[=/=]DVD) |
47 | * [[/index]]Music/DanielJohnston[[index]]: ''The Devil and Daniel Johnston''. |
48 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Kiss}}[[index]], ''Film/KissLovesYou'' |
49 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Korn}}[[index]], ''Who Then Now?'' |
50 | * [[/index]]Music/LCDSoundsystem[[index]]: ''Shut Up and Play the Hits'' |
51 | * [[/index]]Music/LedZeppelin[[index]], ''Film/TheSongRemainsTheSame'' |
52 | * [[/index]]Music/LinkinPark[[index]], ''Frat Party at the Pankake Festival'' |
53 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Madonna}}[[index]], ''Truth or Dare'' |
54 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Metallica}}[[index]], ''Some Kind of Monster'' |
55 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Minutemen}}[[index]], ''We Jam Econo'' |
56 | * [[/index]]Music/NineInchNails[[index]], ''Closure'' |
57 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Oasis}}[[index]], ''Lord Don't Slow Me Down'', ''Supersonic'' |
58 | * [[/index]]Music/OzzyOsbourne[[index]], ''God Bless Ozzy Osbourne'' |
59 | * [[/index]]Music/PearlJam[[index]], ''Pearl Jam 20'' |
60 | * [[/index]]Music/TomPetty[[index]] and the Heartbreakers, ''Runnin' Down a Dream'' |
61 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Phish}}[[index]], ''Bittersweet Motel'', ''Specimens of Beauty'' |
62 | * [[/index]]Music/PinkFloyd[[index]], ''Live at Pompeii'' (not a live [=DVD=] despite the name). |
63 | * [[/index]]Music/ThePixies[[index]], ''[=loudQUIETloud=]'' |
64 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Queen}}[[index]], ''Days of Our Lives'' |
65 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Radiohead}}[[index]], ''Film/MeetingPeopleIsEasy'' |
66 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Rammstein}}[[index]], ''Rammstein in Amerika'' |
67 | * [[/index]]Music/TheRamones[[index]], ''End of the Century'' |
68 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Rodriguez}}[[index]], ''Film/SearchingForSugarMan'' |
69 | * [[/index]]Music/TheRollingStonesBand[[index]], ''Film/GimmeShelter1970'', ''Shine a Light'' |
70 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Rush|Band}}[[index]], ''Beyond the Lighted Stage'' |
71 | * Sex Gang Children, ''Bastard Art'' |
72 | * [[/index]]Music/SexPistols[[index]], ''The Filth and the Fury'' |
73 | * [[/index]]Music/SigurRos[[index]], ''Film/{{Heima}}'' |
74 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Slipknot}}[[index]], ''Welcome to our Neighborhood'' |
75 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Soulwax}}[[index]], ''Part of the Weekend Never Dies'' |
76 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Staind}}[[index]], ''The Making of Staind'' |
77 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Sting}}[[index]], ''Bring on the Night'' |
78 | * [[/index]]Music/TheStoneRoses[[index]] ''Made of Stone'' |
79 | * The Swell Season, ''The Swell Season'' |
80 | * [[/index]]Music/TalkingHeads[[index]], ''Film/StopMakingSense'' (Which contains ''no'' Talking Heads, ironically enough. Actually a straight concert film that is only counted as a rockumentary because it is so acclaimed and influential.) |
81 | * [[/index]]Music/TeganAndSara[[index]], ''It's Not Fun. Don't Do It!'' |
82 | * [[/index]] Music/TheyMightBeGiants[[index]], ''Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns'' |
83 | * [[/index]]Music/AmyWinehouse[[index]], ''[[Film/{{Amy 2015}} Amy]]'' |
84 | * [[/index]]Music/TheWho[[index]], ''Film/TheKidsAreAlright'', ''Amazing Journey'' |
85 | * [[/index]]Music/{{Wilco}}[[index]], ''I Am Trying to Break Your Heart'' |
86 | * [[/index]]Music/BrianWilson[[index]] ''I Just Wasn't Made for These Times'' |
87 | |
88 | !!Rockumentaries about music genres, albums or other music in general: |
89 | * ''Series/BehindTheMusic'': Creator/{{VH1}} (now Creator/{{MTV}}) series dramatizing the rise, fall, and tribulations of various acts. |
90 | * ''Film/BigFunInTheBigTown'': A 1986 documentary about [[/index]]UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHipHop [[index]] filmed while it was happening. |
91 | * ''Series/ClassicAlbums'': A documentary series about classic albums considered to be masterpieces in the repertoire of a certain artist. |
92 | * ''Get Thrashed!'' (specifically about [[/index]]ThrashMetal) |
93 | [[index]] |
94 | * ''It Might Get Loud'' (a documentary on the electric guitar featuring [[/index]][[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]], [[Music/TheWhiteStripes Jack White]] and [[Music/{{U2}} The Edge]])[[index]]. |
95 | * ''Heavy Metal Parking Lot'' |
96 | * ''Metal: A Headbanger's Journey'' |
97 | ** ''Global Metal'' |
98 | * ''Until the Light Takes Us'' |
99 | * ''Heavy: The Story of Metal'' |
100 | * ''Heavy Metal: Louder than Life'' |
101 | * ''Film/TheDeclineOfWesternCivilization'' parts ''I'' and ''III'', covering the UsefulNotes/LosAngeles punk scene at the turn of [[TheEighties the '80s]] and mid-[[TheNineties '90s]] respectively. |
102 | * ''The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years'' |
103 | * ''Kill Your Idols'' (name based on the song by [[/index]]Music/SonicYouth[[index]]). |
104 | * ''Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll'' |
105 | * ''Made in Sheffield'' |
106 | * ''MTV Rockumentary'' (Creator/{{MTV}} series featuring notable acts) |
107 | * ''Film/SoundCity'' |
108 | * ''Hired Gun'' about the sidemen hired to support the main attraction. |
109 | [[/index]] |
110 | |
111 | !!{{Mockumentar|y}}ies InTheStyleOf the Rockumentary: |
112 | * ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap''. |
113 | * ''Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo'', a Mockumentary by Music/{{Primus}}. |
114 | * ''All You Need Is Cash'' (Mockumentary based on Music/TheRutles). |
115 | * ''Film/TheLastPolka'', Mockumentary of the Shmenge Brothers from ''Series/{{SCTV}}''. |
116 | * The affectionate comedy ''[[Film/TwentyFourHourPartyPeople 24 Hour Party People]]''. |
117 | * ''The Compleat Al'', made by [[/index]]Music/WeirdAlYankovic. |
118 | * ''Film/AMightyWind''. |
119 | * ''Film/WalkHard''. |
120 | * ''Born Music/{{Twiztid}}'' |
121 | * ''Film/HardCoreLogo''. |
122 | * ''Film/FearOfABlackHat'' (called a rap version of ''This Is Spinal Tap'') |
123 | * ''Music/{{Fraktus}}: Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte'', a mockumentary about the almost-forgotten German band that influenced Synthpop and invented Techno in the early 1980s. |
124 | * "Bad News" and "More Bad News", episodes of ''Series/TheComicStripPresents''. |
125 | * ''Film/GetReadyToBeBoyzvoiced'' |
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