Subgenre Sampler
Music: 1381 Films to Buy & Rent
Sophisticated Ladies (Sarah Vaughan, Billie Holiday, Shirley Bassey) (1980-1993)
- Three films about three of jazz music's most celebrated female vocalists.
'Sarah Vaughan – The Divine One' (1993) – An overview of…
We Jam Econo - The Story of The Minutemen (1980-1985)
- Dir. Tim Irwin
- Detailed documentary on the too–brief life of the intensely creative and somewhat groundbreaking band, The Minutemen. The history of the band…
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (1979)
- AC/DC's legendary 1979 Paris concert film preserved for the first time on DVD. Includes a 93–minute documentary on the band's epic performance.
Baby Snakes - Frank Zappa (1979)
- Dir. Frank Zappa
Feat. Frank Zappa
- A massively extended concert film from iconoclastic musician Zappa, that is interspersed with the extraordinary claymations of Bruce Bickford. Even…
Benjamin Britten: A Time There Was (1979)
- Dir. Tony Palmer
- Revered British composer Benjamin Britten’s life and times is given the royal Tony Palmer treatment in this comprehensive, loving portrait of…
Don Giovanni (1979)
- Dir. Joseph Losey
- Possibly the most celebrated filmed version of Mozart's greatest opera, about a notorious womaniser who teeters on the edge of a hellish fate.…
James Brown - The Lost Tapes (Body Heat) (1979)
- Feat. James Brown
- James Brown is a funkadelic soul force in this 1979 concert performance at the Monterey Pop Festival.
Track List:, Get Up Offa That Thing, Body…
Kids Are Alright, The (1979)
- Dir. Jeff Stein
Feat. Keith Moon, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend
- Chaotic yet compulsive documentary defining the eclectic career of 'The Who', made shortly before the death of drummer Keith Moon. The others, of…
Last of the Blue Devils, The (1979)
- Dir. Bruce Ricker
- Jazz documentary covering everything from the Basie big–band sound to Kansas City Jazz and blues and the rock and roll that brought attention…
Punk Rock Movie, The (1979)
- Dir. Don Letts
- Filmed at the height of the punk rock movement, this captures the raw essence of an astonishing era. Live clips of the bands that mattered –…