Gerhard Kubik, a cultural anthropologist with a keen interest in African music, spent years compiling recordings of African fingerstyle guitar playing. This program showcases his remarkable collection of music, recorded in Africa and Europe. Featured guitarists include Mwenda Jean Bosco, Faustino Okello, Pierre Gwa, Daniel Kachamba, Mose Yotamu and Moya Aliya, representing the music of nations such as Uganda, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.
Gerhard Kubik, a cultural anthropologist with a keen interest in African music, spent years compiling recordings of African fingerstyle guitar playing. This program showcases his remarkable collection of music, recorded in Africa and Europe. Featured guitarists include Mwenda Jean Bosco, Faustino Okello, Pierre Gwa, Daniel Kachamba, Mose Yotamu and Moya Aliya, representing the music of nations such as Uganda, Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.
The story of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950s Chicago, and the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.
A backstage and on-stage look at Justin Bieber during his rise to super stardom.
After her boyfriend ends their relationship, the dreamself of a heartbroken woman floats through the air over an industrial wasteland singing ballads of love.
A life in one-hundred-sixty-four moments.
Daft Punk Unchained is the first film about the pop culture phenomenon that is Daft Punk, the duo with 12 million albums sold worldwide and seven Grammy Awards. Throughout their career Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have always resisted compromise and the established codes of show business. They have remained determined to maintain control of every link in the chain of their creative process. In the era of globalisation and social networks, they rarely speak in public and neither do they show their faces on TV. This documentary explores this unprecedented cultural revolution revealing a duo of artists on a permanent quest for creativity, independence and freedom.
The true story of Vera Brandes, teenage patron saint of the 1970s Cologne music scene, who risked everything to organize the greatest solo concert in music history: Keith Jarrett’s legendary Köln Concert.
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Ghost is an ideological musician and leader of a jazz band who would rather play his blues in the park to the birds than compromise himself. His peripatetic performances lead him to cross paths with a singer, while his masculinity is thrown into question following a violent brawl.
Home movies, photographs, and recited poetry illustrate the life of Tupac Shakur, one of the most beloved, revolutionary, and volatile hip-hop MCs of all time.
Supersonic charts the meteoric rise of Oasis from the council estates of Manchester to some of the biggest concerts of all time in just three short years. This palpable, raw and moving film shines a light on one of the most genre and generation-defining British bands that has ever existed and features candid new interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher, their mother, and members of the band and road crew.