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Music Films

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A Reggae Session

A Reggae Session

Gathered together for one night in a lifetime, the legendary names of Reggae music and more met at Fort Charles, Jamaica, in a musical event that would reverberate around the world.

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Beowulf

Beowulf

A one-man tour de force performance of the epic Beowulf, Benjamin Bagby delivers this gripping tale in Old English while accompanied on the ancient Anglo-Saxon harp.

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Candy Mountain

Candy Mountain

A struggling musician sets out to find the legendary guitar maker Elmore Silk, with whom he hopes to strike a deal to make himself rich and famous.

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Classical Music Collection

Classical Music Collection

This collection explores both the formal rigor and history of Western musical tradition, and how its practice lives on in the 21st century.

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Conduct! Every Move Counts

Conduct! Every Move Counts

A documentary that explores the secret of conducting with a unique intensity that culminates in a great showdown at Frankfurt’s Opera.

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Deep Blues

Deep Blues

In 1990, director Robert Mugge and music scholar Robert Palmer ventured deep into the Mississippi Delta on a pilgrimage in search of the blues.

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East Jerusalem West Jerusalem

East Jerusalem West Jerusalem

In Palestinian East Jerusalem, Singer-Songwriter David Broza records a new album with American, Palestinian and Israeli musicians in defiance of the Middle East's dark realities.

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Fanny: The Right to Rock

Fanny: The Right to Rock

The untold story of a Filipina American garage band that morphed into the ferocious rock group Fanny, who almost became the female Beatles.

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Far Western

Far Western

The phenomenal story of the transplant of American country music to post-World War II Japan.

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Farewell My Concubine

Farewell My Concubine

Leslie Cheung, Zhang Fengyi, and Gong LI star in Chen Kaige's adaptation of Lilian Lee's epic novel set against the backdrop of the Peking Opera.

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God of the Piano

God of the Piano

After giving birth to a deaf child, Anat takes drastic measures to ensure that he becomes the musical prodigy that her father hoped she would become.

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Harmonia

Harmonia

A contemporary variation of the biblical story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, set in the classical music world.

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Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives

Holly Near: Singing for Our Lives

HOLLY NEAR: SINGING FOR OUR LIVES tells the tale of a singer-songwriter who inspired generations during the height of the LGBTQ and Women's movement.

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I Am the Blues

I Am the Blues

From juke joints to church halls, up the mountain and down to the bayou, I AM THE BLUES travels the back roads with the last of the blues legends.

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Louis van Beethoven

Louis van Beethoven

This lavish historical drama illuminates the story of the world-famous composer from different perspectives.

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Mad Tiger

Mad Tiger

Two best friends have spent the last fifteen years touring the country in their performance art punk band. When one of them decides to quit, they both face deeper challenges than expected.

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Mambo Man

Mambo Man

Minkowski Saga

Minkowski Saga

Opera conductor Marc Minkowski uncovers his family's buried legacy amongst Warsaw's high society.

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Nurse.Fighter.Boy

Nurse.Fighter.Boy

An urban love story about the soul of a mother, the heart of a fighter, and the faith of a child.

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Scared of Revolution

Scared of Revolution

A portrait of the performance poet Umar Bin Hassan and his personal struggle with the revolution he propagated himself with The Last Poets.

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Strike a Pose

Strike a Pose

The surprising and moving story of Madonna's most famous troupe of dancers.

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The Paris Opera

The Paris Opera

Go behind the scenes for an all-access look at the Paris Opera, where backstage drama and triumphs play out each night before the curtain rises.

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The Piano in a Factory

The Piano in a Factory

To fight for custody of his daughter who loves playing the piano, a steel factory worker decides to forge a piano from scratch.

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The Violin

The Violin

An elderly Mexican musician leads a traveling band that also includes his son and grandson. Determined to fight the country's military regime, they help to supply guerrilla fighters by hiding ammuniti...

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The Wind Journeys

The Wind Journeys

A musician goes on a mystical quest across the Caribbean to return an accordion, which is said to have belonged to the devil, to its rightful owner.

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Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents

Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents

The story of the iconic renegade cult music and art collective known as The Residents who have achieved levels of fame most groups can only dream of, yet no one knows who they are.

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White Riot

White Riot

A motley crew of mavericks band together with top punk bands to create Britain's biggest-ever civil rights movement, Rock Against Racism (RAR).

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Why Is We Americans?

Why Is We Americans?

By turns kinetic and intimate, this in-depth documentary examines Newark’s legendary Baraka family from its patriarch Amiri to mayor Ras Baraka.

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Women Composers

Women Composers

An examination of the historical and personal circumstances under which three remarkable women created their works in the 1800s and early 1900s.

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You Will be Mine

You Will be Mine

Marie and Emma develop a deep need for one another after they become roommates.

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