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CBGB (2013)

Summary: A look at the New York City punk-rock scene and the venerable nightclub, CBGB.

Release Date: October 11, 2013

Genres: Drama, Crime, Music

Director: Randall Miller

Writers: Jody Savin

, Randall Miller

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Unclaimed Freight Productions, Rampart Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 5,000,000

Domestic: $ 40,400

Long Strange Trip (2017)

Summary: A look at the 30-year career of The Grateful Dead.

Release Date: May 26, 2017

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Amir Bar-Lev

Runtime: 3 h 58 min

MPAA: R

Production: Amazon Studios, Double E Pictures, AOMA Sunshine Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 351,957

Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man (2005)

Summary: A documentary on the legendary singer-songwriter, with performances by those musicians he has influenced.

Release Date: July 28, 2006

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Lian Lunson

Writer: Lian Lunson

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: G

Production: Lionsgate, SundanceTV, Con Artists Productions, Lionsgate Productions

Distributor: HBO Max

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,044,254

International: $ 357,721

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey (1993)

Summary: A documentary about the inventor of the first electronic synthesiser instrument and his subsequent life after he was abducted by the KGB as well as a history of his instrument.

Release Date: August 24, 1995

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Steven M. Martin

Writer: Steven M. Martin

Runtime: 1 h 23 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Kaga Bay, Channel Four Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, Orion Home Video, Image Entertainment, MGM Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 253,311

Searching for Sugar Man (2012)

Summary: Two South Africans set out to discover what happened to their unlikely musical hero, the mysterious 1970s rock n roller, Rodriguez.

Release Date: July 26, 2012

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Malik Bendjelloul

Writers: Malik Bendjelloul

, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman

, Craig Bartholomew Strydom

Runtime: 1 h 26 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Red Box Films, Passion Pictures, Canfield Pictures, The Documentary Company, Hysteria Film, Saperi Film, Sveriges Television (SVT), YLE Co-Productions

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, The Criterion Channel

Countries: Sweden, United Kingdom, Finland

Language: English

Domestic: $ 3,696,196

International: $ 5,684,166

Stoned (2005)

Summary: A chronicle of the sordid life and suspicious death of Rolling Stones co-founder Brian Jones, who was found in the bottom of his swimming pool weeks after being let go from the band.

Release Date: November 18, 2005

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Stephen Woolley

Writers: Neal Purvis

, Robert Wade

, Geoffrey Giuliano

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Number 9 Films, Finola Dwyer Productions, Scala Productions, Wildgaze Films

Distributor: Screen Media Films

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Domestic: $ 38,922

International: $ 148,238

The Last Dispatch (2005)

Summary: This feature documentary chronicles the last days of Dispatch, quite possibly the biggest band that never signed with a record label. In a time of upheaval in the music industry, their do-it-yourself style started a grassroots fan...

Release Date: July 29, 2005

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Helmut Schleppi

Runtime: 1 h 21 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Sodium Entertainment

Distributor: Fabrication Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 20,684

Backbeat (1994)

Summary: A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.

Release Date: April 15, 1994

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Iain Softley

Writers: Iain Softley

, Michael Thomas

, Stephen Ward

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Channel Four Films, Fortbeam, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment, Wildgaze Films

Distributor: Columbia TriStar Home Video, PolyGram Video, USA Films, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), Shout! Factory, Shout Select

Countries: United Kingdom, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,392,589

International: $ 2,315,862

Hype! (1996)

Summary: Documentary covering the growth and subsequent overexposure of the Seattle "grunge" music scene in the early 90s

Release Date: November 08, 1996

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Director: Doug Pray

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Helvey-Pray Productions

Distributor: Lions Gate Films, Shout Select

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 268,520

Modulations (1998)

Summary: The evolution of electronic music and its many genres. How the wide range of styles and scenes formed through experimentations on sound formation.

Release Date: September 18, 1998

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Iara Lee

Writer: Peter Shapiro

Runtime: 1 h 15 min

Production: Caipirinha Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 138,425

The Art of Amália (2000)

Summary: Documentary about the life and art of legendary singer Amália Rodrigues (1920-1999).

Release Date: December 08, 2000

Genres: Documentary, Biography

Director: Bruno de Almeida

Writers: Frank Coelho

, Vítor Pavão dos Santos

, Artur Ribeiro

Runtime: 1 h 30 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Arco Films, EMI Música Portugal (EMI), Valentim de Carvalho Televisão

Countries: Portugal, United States

Language: Portuguese

Domestic: $ 6,900

The Filth and the Fury (2000)

Summary: A film about the career of the notorious punk rock band, the Sex Pistols.

Release Date: May 12, 2000

Genres: Music, Documentary, Biography

Director: Julien Temple

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: FilmFour, Jersey Shore, Nitrate Films, Panacea Entertainment, The Sex Pistols Residuals

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 612,192

International: $ 241

Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)

Summary: Documentary about the Funk Brothers, a group of Detroit musicians who backed up dozens of Motown artists.

Release Date: November 29, 2002

Genres: Music, Documentary

Director: Paul Justman

Writers: Walter Dallas

, Ntozake Shange

, Alan Slutsky

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: E

Production: Artisan Entertainment, Rimshot, Elliott Scott Productions

Distributor: Artisan Entertainment, Lightning Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,722,119

International: $ 622,137

School of Rock (2003)

Summary: After being kicked out of his rock band, Dewey Finn becomes a substitute teacher of an uptight elementary private school, only to try and turn his class into a rock band.

Release Date: October 03, 2003

Genres: Comedy, Music

Director: Richard Linklater

Writer: Mike White

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Paramount Pictures, Scott Rudin Productions, MFP Munich Film Partners GmbH & Company I. Produktions KG, New Century, Sor Productions, Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP)

Distributor: Paramount Pictures, CBS, Cartoon Network, Fox Network, HBO Max, Paramount Home Entertainment

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 35,000,000

Domestic: $ 81,261,177

International: $ 49,837,790

American Hardcore (2006)

Summary: The History of American Punk Rock 1980-1986

Release Date: September 13, 2006

Genres: Music, Documentary, History

Director: Paul Rachman

Writer: Steven Blush

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: 14A

Production: AHC Productions, Envision Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 279,665

International: $ 96,392

The Art of Rap: Something from Nothing (2012)

Summary: A documentary on rap music and its rise to global prominence.

Release Date: July 20, 2012

Genres: Music, Documentary

Directors: Ice-T

, Andy Baybutt

Runtime: 1 h 46 min

MPAA: R

Distributor: Indomina Releasing, Cinedigm Entertainment Group, Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 288,000

International: $ 45,388

Twenty Feet from Stardom (2013)

Summary: Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

Release Date: July 26, 2013

Genres: Documentary, Biography, History

Director: Morgan Neville

Writer: Morgan Neville

Runtime: 1 h 31 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Gil Friesen Productions, Tremolo Productions

Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,000,000

Domestic: $ 4,946,445

International: $ 892,923

Miles Ahead (2015)

Summary: An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

Release Date: April 22, 2016

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Don Cheadle

Writers: Steven Baigelman

, Don Cheadle

, Stephen J. Rivele

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: R

Production: Sony Pictures Classics, Bifrost Pictures, Miles Davis Properties, Yellowsaw Productions, Crescendo Productions, Naked City Films

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 2,610,896

International: $ 863,062

VH1's Heavy: The Story of Metal (2006)

Summary: The four part documentary focuses on the origins, subgenres, and the bands of heavy metal music, paying close attention to influential bands like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Judas Priest, and Iron Maiden, who helped to define hea...

Release Date: May 21, 2006

Genre: Documentary

Director: Michael John Warren

Writers: Tom Coppola

, Eliza Kurtz

, Matt Maranz

Runtime: 1 h 00 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: 441 Productions

Country: United States

Language: English

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)

Summary: An examination of the heavy metal music subculture that tries to explain why, despite the longevity and popularity of the genre, fans are marginalized and ridiculed for their passion.

Release Date: June 21, 2006

Genres: Music, Documentary

Directors: Sam Dunn