Five Music Documentaries Worth Your Sunday Night
Music documentaries are the perfect Sunday night watch: part history lesson, part nostalgia, and often more dramatic than anything a screenwriter could make up. Here are five of our favourites.
The Beatles: Get Back (2021)
Peter Jackson's restoration of the Let It Be sessions is long, but it's worth every minute. Watching songs like "Get Back" appear out of thin air is a masterclass in how bands actually work. And then there's the rooftop.
Summer of Soul (2021)
Questlove's directing debut uncovers footage of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival that sat in a basement for fifty years. Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone: astonishing performances, finally seen.
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
The Oscar-winning story of Rodriguez, a Detroit singer-songwriter who flopped at home but became a legend in South Africa without ever knowing it. Go in knowing as little as possible.
Moonage Daydream (2022)
Brett Morgen's film about David Bowie isn't a straight biography. It's a kaleidoscope of sound and image, built entirely from archive footage. Watch it on the biggest screen and loudest speakers you have.
Dig! (2004)
Seven years in the lives of two bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, one heading for the charts and one heading for chaos. It's funny, painful, and the best film ever made about the music business.
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