Here we've displayed a list of the best Blues Music films : Lightning in a Bottle(2004), Joe Cocker: Mad Dog with Soul(2017), Leadbelly(1975), Mali Blues(2016), Django(2017), Pride and Joy: The Story of Alligator Records(1992), Hellhounds on My Trail: The Afterlife of Robert Johnson(1999) ... ...
Documentary
USA
2004
109 Minutes
Buddy Guy Solomon Burke
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Antoine Fuqua's documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.
Documentary
UK
2017
90 Minutes
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The story of singer Joe Cocker is told through archive footage and interviews for close associates.
Biography
USA
1975
126 Minutes
Roger E. Mosley Paul Benjamin Madge Sinclair Alan Manson Albert P. Hall Art Evans James Brodhead John Henry Faulk Vivian Bonnell Dana Manno Timothy Pickard
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The life of Blues and folk singer Huddie Leadbetter, nicknamed Leadbelly is recounted. Covering the good times and bad from his 20s to 40s. Much of that time was spent on chain gangs in the... See full summary »
Documentary, Music
Germany|Mali
2016
93 Minutes
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Mali's Music defines the country's cultural identity. Radical Islamists are threatening the musicians. Together with the stars of Malian Global Pop - Fatoumata Diawara, Bassekou Kouyaté ... See full summary »
Music, Biography, Drama, History
France
2017
115 Minutes
Reda Kateb Cécile de France Bea Pálya Ulrich Brandhoff Maximilien Poullein Esther Comar Alexandre Sauty Gabriel Mireté Alex Brendemühl Aloïse Sauvage Antoine Laurent
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The story of Django Reinhardt, famous guitarist and composer, and his flight from German-occupied Paris in 1943.
Documentary
1992
87 Minutes
Lonnie Brooks Bruce Iglauer Koko Taylor Elvin Bishop
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Filmmaker Robert Mugge shows Elvin Bishop, Koko Taylor and other Alligator-label blues artists in concert.
Documentary
1999
95 Minutes
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Filmmaker Robert Mugge pays tribute to the guitarist who, according to legend, sold his soul to the devil to become a blues master.