#Music Documentary

Articles (24)

• 🇺🇸 Blues Musician & ‘Sinners’ Performer Bobby Rush Subject Of Doc ‘King Of The Chitlin’ Circuit’ — 23/03/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Grammy-winning blues musician Bobby Rush, fresh off Oscar winner Sinners, is the subject of new documentary King of the Chitlin’ Circuit. The 92-year-old blues vet performed the harmonica p...

  Related: #Blues History
• 🇺🇸 Big L’s Estate Releases ‘The Parable of Lamont Coleman’ Documentary Trailer — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The film is expected to arrive in 2026

  Related: #Hip-Hop Legacy
• 🇺🇸 ‘Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story’ Review: A Rediscovered Y2K-Era Album Is Only Half the Story — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  SXSW: Actress and first-time filmmaker Ayden Mayeri dives deep into her own pre-teen years for a disarming and wise look at female coming-of-age.

  Related: #Nostalgia
• 🇺🇸 The Oasis Reunion-Tour Doc Is Currently Four Hours Long and ‘Phenomenal,’ Says Producer — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Steven Knight offered a few more details about the mysterious project, calling it a “documentary with a plot”

  Related: #Band Reunion
• 🇺🇸 Heart’s Ann Wilson to Premiere New Documentary, ‘In My Voice,’ With a 10-City Screening/Q&A Tour (EXCLUSIVE) — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  Fresh off the road from a stint with Heart, Ann Wilson will undertake another tour in the coming months — this time hitting theaters, clubs and museums with the rolling premiere of a new documentary a...

  Related: #Artist Tour
• 🇺🇸 BTS Reveal New ‘The Return’ Doc Trailer: ‘Where We’re Meant to Be’ — 17/03/2026 [USA]

  The upcoming doc will follow the band as they make their fifth studio album, Arirang

  Related: #Personal Journey
• 🇺🇸 Noah Kahan Says Making New Doc Was a ‘Weird, Difficult, and Genuinely Beautiful’ Experience — 16/03/2026 [USA]

  Out of Body drops on Netflix in April, and “captures so much more than I ever thought the world would see about myself,” says the singer-songwriter

  Related: #Artistic Process
• 🇺🇸 ‘We Are the Shaggs’ SXSW Film Review: The World’s Most Polarizing Band Gets Its Due in Ken Kwapis’ Sweet Salute to Outsider Rock — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  The Shaggs may be the unlikeliest group since the dawn of rock ‘n’ roll to have attracted a cult of hundreds of thousands or even millions of fans, all of whom take their place on different parts of t...

  Related: #Outsider Art
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel’ Review: Netflix Doc Is Funny and Moving, but Could Use More Hillel Slovak — 15/03/2026 [USA]

  Ben Feldman tackles the early years of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, including the influence of founding member Hillel Slovak, with an assist from Flea and Anthony Kiedis.

  Related: #Band History
• 🇺🇸 Ken Kwapis And The Stars Of His Documentary ‘We Are The Shaggs’ Reflect On The Legacy Of The Rock World’s Most Unlikely Cult Band – SXSW — 14/03/2026 [USA]

  By rights, The Shaggs shouldn’t even be a footnote in the history of rock, pop or jazz. Their first and only real album, Philosophy of the World, came out in 1969 in an edition of just 1,000, paid for...

  Related: #Cult Bands
• 🇺🇸 ‘We Are The Shaggs’ Review: Ken Kwapis’s Endearing Doc Tells The Strange True Story Behind The Best “Worst Album” Ever Made – SXSW — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  The Shaggs — an all-girl band featuring the three suburban Wiggin sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire — were always an acquired taste. Formed in 1965, they released one album, Philosophy of the World,...

  Related: #Cult Bands
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel’ Review: A Blistering Portrait of the Band’s Early Years Melts Into an Overdone Lament — 13/03/2026 [USA]

  "The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel," which premiered today at SXSW and drops next week on Netflix, is a documentary that lives up to both halves of its title, and that’s both ...

  Related: #Band History
• 🇺🇸 For His First Documentary, Ken Kwapis Turns His Camera on Girl Group The Shaggs — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  With "We Are the Shaggs," the film and TV director, previously known for comedies like "He Said, She Said" and "The Office," tells a true story that raises intriguing questions about art, authenticity...

  Related: #Artistic Exploration
• 🇺🇸 See Lunachicks’ Punk-Rock Origin Story in ‘Pretty Ugly’ Doc Trailer — 11/03/2026 [USA]

  The film, which features interviews with band members — as well as members of Blondie, L7, the Go-Go's, the Offspring, and others — arrives this spring

  Related: #Punk Rock
• 🇺🇸 Abramorama Buys A Cappella Documentary ‘Just Sing’ (EXCLUSIVE) — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical rights to “Just Sing,” a coming-of-age a cappella documentary set in a real-life, “Pitch Perfect” competition. It follows a make-or-break season with ...

  Related: #Film Acquisition
• 🇺🇸 Kenny Loggins Doc by Dori Berinstein to World Premiere at Hot Docs — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  The Grammy-winning singer-songwriter of early Loggins and Messina fame went on to compose movie soundtrack greats like ‘Top Gun’ and ‘Footloose.’

  Related: #Film Festival
• 🇺🇸 New Ennio Morricone Doc to Delve Into Legendary Composer’s Concert Activity (EXCLUSIVE) — 09/03/2026 [USA]

  Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone will get the big-screen treatment in a new documentary titled “I Never Wrote Music for Films — We All Love Ennio Morricone.” The project is based on the perspect...

  Related: #Biographical Film
• 🇺🇸 ‘Hex’ Appeal: Doc Brings the Noise, Following the Rise of Female Black Metal Band Witch Club Satan — 06/03/2026 [USA]

  Maja Holand's doc, getting its international premiere at Thessaloniki on Friday before heading to Copenhagen, shows three Norwegian women, who don't know how to play music, form a coven and scream the...

  Related: #Feminism, #Female Empowerment, #Societal Norms
• 🇺🇸 ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Is Getting a Collectible Blu-ray Release — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  The SteelBook 4K and Blu-ray of the documentary will feature extras like photo cards and guitar picks, and comes out on April 14

  Related: #Collectible Media
• 🇺🇸 How, With ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans,’ Grant Gee Turned the Music Biopic Inside Out — 05/03/2026 [USA]

  Anders Danielsen Lie plays the legendary jazz pianist in the Berlin-winning drama that shifts the focus from performance to the months of silence that followed the death of Evans' beloved bassist Scot...

  Related: #Innovative Filmmaking
• 🇺🇸 Chloë Sevigny, a Lifelong Deadhead, Is Producing a Film About Deadheads — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Summer Tour , directed by her friend Mischa Richter, will screen this summer with distribution through Utopia

  Related: #Fan Culture, #Grateful Dead Legacy
• 🇺🇸 ‘This Is Buzz:’ Mark Pellington’s Experimental Slamdance Title Inspired By The Cult MTV Show Lands North American Distribution Deal — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  EXCLUSIVE: Starboard Entertainment has acquired North American rights to This Is Buzz, the experiential documentary feature directed by Mark Pellington and inspired by the cult MTV series Buzz.  The a...

  Related: #Cultural Heritage, #Nostalgia, #Independent Film
• 🇺🇸 ‘Eraserheads: Combo on the Run,’ Doc on Legendary Filipino Rock Band, Lands North American Theatrical Release via Abramorama (EXCLUSIVE) — 26/02/2026 [USA]

  Abramorama has acquired North American theatrical rights to “Eraserheads: Combo on the Run,” an award-winning documentary on the legendary Filipino rock band, from DVent Pictures. Directed and produce...

  Related: #Philippine Culture, #Band Legacy
• 🇺🇸 'The Moment' Review: Charli XCX Mock-Doc Has Big Ideas, Little Laughs — 29/01/2026 [USA]

  The pop star is a shrewd observer of her own fame in a 'Brat' companion piece that feels more like a concert film than a mockumentary.

  Related: #Celebrity Culture, #Mockumentary