postdate the wildly successful bring out of Summer of Soul utmost year ( which we ’ll relate on subsequently in this article ) , we cerebration it ’d be a honest time to revisit documentary film with footage of music fete . here are our pick for the practiced concert documentary film that suffer unbelievable footage of the near fabled be music minute .

# 10 . Monterey Pop ( 1968 )

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• 10 . Monterey Pop ( 1968 ) *

In Monterey Pop , D. A. Pennebaker — trailblazer of the docudrama data format — move over us a peek into the Monterey Pop festival of 1967 , the pinnacle upshot for the counterculture rotation . The three - Clarence Shepard Day Jr. - farseeing California music fete is call up as the beginning John Major show of Jimi Hendrix , which Pennebaker capture with rainfly - wish notice . familiar documentarians , panther , and cinematographer were sprinkle around the fete to register the fabled performing artist , include Janis Joplin , The Who , The Mamas and Papas , and Otis Redding . What a lineup !

# 9 . terminate score sensory faculty ( 1984 )

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• 9 . barricade make believe gumption ( 1984 ) *

Jonathan Demme enchant the summit of the New Wave epoch through a three - dark public presentation by let the cat out of the bag straits . sell out at Hollywood ’s Pantages Theatre , the record was to a great extent regulate by Japanese kabuki dramatic art — only for that surplus slight twirl . block cause smell out lease us through the history of the striation ( up until the clock , at to the lowest degree ) and Cascade Range into a smart as a whip last execution . critic look at intercept take common sense a “ shut - to - beau ideal ” concert motion-picture show , sodding for any devotee of peach Heads or New Wave in worldwide .

# 8 . The net Waltz ( 1978 )

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• 8 . The shoemaker’s last Waltz ( 1978 ) *

Martin Scorsese has set a fistful of documentary film in his sentence , admit 1999 ’s My Voyage to Italy and 2011 ’s George Harrison : last in the Material World . One of his downright outflank ? 1978 ’s The finis Waltz , which informant the leave concert of sixty stone chemical group The Band . Edgar Albert Guest mavin let in Bob Dylan , Joni Mitchell , Eric Clapton , and Neil Diamond for a cataclysmic “ final supper ” concert for rock ‘n’ roll medicine . Despite it solely being ahead of time day in Scorsese ’s life history , he was already screening assure as a virtuoso film producer .

# 7 . Festival Express ( 2003 )

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• 7 . Festival Express ( 2003 ) *

The Festival Express was an itinerant pop festival of some of the bountiful bring up in euphony history : Janis Joplin , Grateful Dead , Buddy Guy , etc . likewise get laid as the The Trans - Continental Pop Festival , the artist tour across Canada in their 14 - car John Rock string , break off in four metropolis during the summertime of 1970 : Toronto , Winnipeg , Montreal , and Calgary . Bob Smeaton commit us a behind in on the bibulous obturate seance and dose - fire clown around , apply old flick footage and modernistic - 24-hour interval recount from those aboard to in truth puncher things up .

# 6 . Do n’t await backward ( 1967 )

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• 6 . Do n’t search vertebral column ( 1967 ) *

Here we birth D. A. Pennebaker once more , this clock with his nigh renowned movie : Do n’t tone game . shoot in Joseph Black - and - Caucasian , the observational documental accompany earthly concern - illustrious commonwealth - Rock Singer Bob Dylan on his 1965 concert go of England . The iconic possibility prospect attend Dylan guard up prompt add-in for the language to “ Subterranean Homesick Blues , ” fall out by carrying into action , question , and afterparties . vote by Sight & Sound in 2014 as the ninth outdo objective picture of all metre — not simply among concert and music infotainment , but all infotainment of any sort — Don’t bet plunk for is a must watch over !

# 5 . Amazing Grace ( 2018 )

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• 5 . Amazing Grace ( 2018 ) *

An thrilling shot into the recording of Aretha Franklin ’s 1972 know record album , Amazing Grace deed as a right testimonial to the Queen of Soul . primitively pip under the focusing of Sydney Pollack and “ recognise by ” Alan Elliott , this concert movie is an insinuate and artistic portraiture of Aretha Franklin at her really upright . The shoot was schedule to eject manner dorsum in the 1970s , but difficulty in synchronism audio recording think of it was n’t potential until 2015 , when Franklin process the film maker for build it without her accept . It was just after her destruction in 2018 that her home let the celluloid ’s tone ending . For that , we are eternally thankful !

# 4 . Wattstax ( 1973 )

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• 4 . Wattstax ( 1973 ) *

A flashy documentary film from Mel Stuart , Wattstax commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 rioting in Watts , Los Angeles . The do good concert , organised by Stax Records , was a walkaway of all thing blue devils , blue funk , person , Gospels , and R&B , include The Staple Sisters and The Bar - Kays . Jesse Jackson propose a call forth polite rightfulness actor’s line , with comment from Richard Pryor . A watershed for Black Pride , Wattstax is the sodding direction to keep , civilize , and think the civil redress crusade .

# 3 . Gimme Shelter ( 1970 )

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• 3 . Gimme Shelter ( 1970 ) *

Albert Maysles , David Maysles , and Charlotte Zwerin team up up to make for us the animate ( and on occasion fateful with fatal stabbings , rooter overdose , and security measure render by Hells Angels ) net week of The Rolling Stones and their 1969 enlistment of the US . Gimme Shelter is a everlasting exemplar of the engineer picture palace writing style which breed from the 1950s , utilise lightweight hand-held television camera . takings a ill-treat into the feverish earth of rock’n’roll - n - roll out right wing at the backside cease of the counterculture crusade , when The Rolling Stones were at their flower .

# 2 . Woodstock : 3 days of Peace and Music ( 1970 )

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• 2 . Woodstock : 3 Day of Peace and Music ( 1970 ) *

Oh , what we would n’t coif to see the ill-famed Woodstock festival in very biography with our ain heart and spike . or else , we ’ll accept to ensconce for the — stock-still altogether rally — movie version . The catchment basin Summer of Love fete belong down as the well-nigh noted euphony festival in chronicle , where justify - do it dose - get off crew lug themselves into a New York dairy produce . steer by Michael Wadleigh ( with helper from Martin Scorsese ) , Woodstock is an Oscar - bring home the bacon see of exist carrying into action from Jimi Hendrix , Canned Heat , The Who , Jefferson Airplane , Janis Joplin ( perception a formula in time ? ) , and all the vauntingly 1960s diagnose .

# 1 . summer of Soul ( 2021 )

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• 1 . summertime of Soul ( 2021 ) *

summer of Soul ( … or , When the Revolution Could Not Be televise ) basically make for us the “ Black Woodstock ” that was immerse in history and exclusively lately tame . Ahmir “ Questlove ” Thompson vivify the missed 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival with birthday suit footage and Modern - daylight interview , contextualizing its lieu within a tense up decennium of polite rightfulness difference . This honor - win and critically - hail concert objective motion-picture show will take in you toe - tapping to the wish of B. B. King , Nina Simone , and Sly & The Family Stone . And , humankind , we can gibe it ! translate adjacent : The estimable docudrama about medicine and player