Rockumentary

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.

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.

Also see Wikipedia's article on it.

Rockumentaries about bands and artists:

• AC/DC, Family Jewels
• Anvil! The Story of Anvil
• Armin Van Buuren, A Year With Armin Van Buuren
• Avenged Sevenfold, All Excess.
• The Band, The Last Waltz
• Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked in America
• The Beatles, Let It Be
  • The Beatles Anthology.
  • The Beatles: Get Back (a Re-Cut and expansion of the footage originally shot for Let It Be)
  • Eight Days A Week: The Touring Years.
• Big Star, Nothing Can Hurt Me
• The Black Crowes, "Who Killed That Bird Out on Your Window Sill."
• Blur, No Distance Left to Run
• David Bowie, Cracked Actor
• BTS, Burn the Stage (series and film)
• Jeff Buckley, Amazing Grace
• Buena Vista Social Club, Buena Vista Social Club
• David Byrne, American Utopia
• Chicago, Now More Than Ever
• The Clash, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, The Rise and Fall of the Clash
  • Westway To The World.
• Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs and Englishmen.
• Descendents, Filmage
• The Decemberists, A Practical Handbook
• Disturbed, M.O.L., D.O.D.
• The Doors, When You're Strange
• Duran Duran, Sing Blue Silver, Three to Get Ready, Extraordinary World
• Bob Dylan, Don't Look Back
• Electric Six, Absolute Treasure
• Flaming Lips, The Fearless Freaks
• Foo Fighters, Back and Forth
• Gary Glitter, Remember Me This Way.
• Genesis, Come Rain or Shine, Together and Apart
• George Harrison, Living in the Material World
• Insane Clown Posse, Shockumentary, A Family Underground
• Iron Maiden, 12 Wasted Years, The Early Days, Flight 666
• Michael Jackson, Michael Jackson's This Is It
• Jean-Michel Jarre, Making the Steamroller Fly (can be found on the Oxygen in Moscow live VHS/DVD)
• Daniel Johnston: The Devil and Daniel Johnston.
• Kiss, Kiss Loves You
• Korn, Who Then Now?
• LCD Soundsystem: Shut Up and Play the Hits
• Led Zeppelin, The Song Remains the Same
• Linkin Park, Frat Party at the Pankake Festival
• Madonna, Truth or Dare
• Metallica, Some Kind of Monster
• Minutemen, We Jam Econo
• Nine Inch Nails, Closure
• Oasis, Lord Don't Slow Me Down, Supersonic
• Ozzy Osbourne, God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
• Pearl Jam, Pearl Jam 20
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Runnin' Down a Dream
• Phish, Bittersweet Motel, Specimens of Beauty
• Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii (not a live DVD despite the name).
• The Pixies, loudQUIETloud
• Queen, Days of Our Lives
• Radiohead, Meeting People is Easy
• Rammstein, Rammstein in Amerika
• The Ramones, End of the Century
• Rodriguez, Searching for Sugar Man
• The Rolling Stones (Band), Gimme Shelter (1970), Shine a Light
• Rush, Beyond the Lighted Stage
• Sex Gang Children, Bastard Art
• Sex Pistols, The Filth and the Fury
• Sigur Rós, Heima
• Slipknot, Welcome to our Neighborhood
• Soulwax, Part of the Weekend Never Dies
• Staind, The Making of Staind
• Sting, Bring on the Night
• The Stone Roses Made of Stone
• The Swell Season, The Swell Season
• Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense (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.)
• Tegan & Sara, It's Not Fun. Don't Do It!
• They Might Be Giants, Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns
• Amy Winehouse, Amy
• The Who, The Kids Are Alright, Amazing Journey
• Wilco, I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
• Brian Wilson I Just Wasn't Made for These Times

Rockumentaries about music genres, albums or other music in general:

• Big Fun in the Big Town: A 1986 documentary about The Golden Age of Hip Hop filmed while it was happening.
• Classic Albums: A documentary series about classic albums considered to be masterpieces in the repertoire of a certain artist.
• Get Thrashed! (specifically about Thrash Metal)

• It Might Get Loud (a documentary on the electric guitar featuring Jimmy Page, Jack White and The Edge).
• Heavy Metal Parking Lot
• Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
  • Global Metal.
• Until the Light Takes Us
• Heavy: The Story of Metal
• Heavy Metal: Louder than Life
• The Decline of Western Civilization parts I and III, covering the Los Angeles punk scene at the turn of the '80s and mid-'90s respectively.
• The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
• Kill Your Idols (name based on the song by Sonic Youth).
• Long Way to the Top: Stories of Australian Rock & Roll
• Made in Sheffield
• Sound City
• Hired Gun about the sidemen hired to support the main attraction.

Mockumentaries In the Style of the Rockumentary:

• This is Spın̈al Tap.
• Electric Apricot: Quest for Festeroo, a Mockumentary by Primus.
• All You Need Is Cash (Mockumentary based on The Rutles).
• The Last Polka, Mockumentary of the Shmenge Brothers from SCTV.
• The affectionate comedy 24 Hour Party People.
• The Compleat Al, made by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• A Mighty Wind.
• Walk Hard.
• Born Twiztid
• Hard Core Logo.
• Fear Of A Black Hat (called a rap version of This Is Spinal Tap)
• Fraktus: Das letzte Kapitel der Musikgeschichte, a mockumentary about the almost-forgotten German band that influenced Synthpop and invented Techno in the early 1980s.
• "Bad News" and "More Bad News", episodes of The Comic Strip Presents.
• Get Ready to Be Boyzvoiced

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