The Pink Floyd and Syd Barrett Story
β 7.8 Β· 2003 Β· 49m Β· Documentary Β· Music
The full bizarre, tragic but celebratory story of Syd Barrett, the co-founder of Pink Floyd.
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2020 Β· β 6.8
A confessional, cautionary, and occasionally humorous tale of Robbie Robertson's young life and the creation of one of the most enduring groups in the history of popular music, The Band.
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Top Hat
1935 Β· β 7.3
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, much to the annoyance of sleeping Dale Tremont below. She goes upstairs to complain and the two are immediately attracted to each other. Complications arise when Dale mistakes Jerry for Horace.
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Helbra
2004
The film tells the story of three friends and their long years of drug addiction in a small village of East Germany.
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Falklands' Most Daring Raid
2012 Β· β 8
Documentary film about the then longest range bombing mission in history, which changed the outcome of the Falklands War.
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A Hard Day's Night
1964 Β· β 7.3
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
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DARK DAYS
2021 Β· β 10
When it comes to self-promotion, no one can beat Blackout Problems: On their website and social media clips, white roses, gas masks and burning shopping wagons. On YouTube, the well-designed studio documentary "Dark Days", thick with pathos, is a gripping introduction to the third long player by the Munich-based band.
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Still Crazy
1998 Β· β 6.8
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. Twenty years on, these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.
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Velvet Goldmine
1998 Β· β 6.9
Almost a decade since larger-than-life glam-rock enigma Brian Slade disappeared from public eye, an investigative journalist is on assignment to uncover the truth behind his former idol.
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The School of Rock
2003 Β· β 7.1
Fired from his band and hard up for cash, guitarist and vocalist Dewey Finn finagles his way into a job as a fifth-grade substitute teacher at a private school, where he secretly begins teaching his straight-A students the finer points of rock 'n' roll and the power of sticking it to the man. But as the schoolβs stern principal closes in and the Battle of the Bands looms, Dewey must risk everything to prove that rock 'n' roll can change lives.
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Like It Is
1968 Β· β 5.4
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LSD-25
1967 Β· β 7.5
The dangers of LSD are driven home to teenagers in this classroom training film, which is "narrated" by an LSD tab. The "tab" tells kids that he is "a depth charge in the mind!" and various teenagers are shwn babbling about their LSD experiences. "Experts" are presented who warn that LSD makes kids "paint themselves green" and has various other horrible side effects, the most serious of which is that it gives users a police record, and that there is "no known way of getting your fingerprints out of a police file once they're in there."
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