White Jazz, Nicola Black’s highly acclaimed documentary, follows cult crime writer James Ellroy’s quest to find his mother’s murderer. Ellroy takes the viewer on a visceral journey through the streets of Los Angeles as he re-opens the files of his own mother’s brutal killing in the 1950s.
James Ellroy
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White Jazz, Nicola Black’s highly acclaimed documentary, follows cult crime writer James Ellroy’s quest to find his mother’s murderer. Ellroy takes the viewer on a visceral journey through the streets of Los Angeles as he re-opens the files of his own mother’s brutal killing in the 1950s.
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
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.
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A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
A vibrant tribute to one of America's legendary bandleaders, charting Glenn Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940s.
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 father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer.