According to Moviemaker:
10. Don't Look Back (1967, D.A. Pennebaker)
9. Monterey Pop (1968, D.A. Pennebaker)
8. Woodstock (1970, Michael Wadleigh)
7. Gimme Shelter (1970, Albert and David Maysles)
6. Wattstax (1973, Mel Stuart)
5. The Last Waltz (1978, Martin Scorsese)
4. Style Wars (1983, Henry Chalfant & Tony Silver)
3. Stop Making Sense (1984, Jonathan Demme)
2. Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll!(1987, Taylor Hackford)
AND FINALLY
*drum roll*
1. The Filth And The Fury (2000, Julien Temple)
^I love this film so am very pleased. Would also have liked to see Westway To The World on that list but you can't have it all I suppose.
I think 3 is better than 1
but i agree it is a very good documentary
thats weird
how the films are in chronological order
that is weird
Well, things are clearly getting better
at least
Temple's films have approved since back in the day (he was also the director of the great rock&roll swindle.....)
no American Hardcore and no The Instrument
epic fail
are both easily available on dvd?
cause that was part of the criteria.
I don't really know that much about these films, Filth&Fury is the only one on the list I've seen.
Stop Making Sense ftw!
i've never seen any of those
i'm struggling to remember any music documentary that i might have seen. unless you count folk britannia that was on bbc4 last year.
everyone loves Stop Making Sense!
where is This is Spinal Tap though? surely the king of the genre
that's a mockumentary
and i've just rememered that i've seen dig!, which should be up there just for anton newcombe screaming "you broke my fucking sitar!" at some guy in the street.
still counts
Some Kind Of Monster pwns
style wars?
what's that?
according to the article i've linked to:
"Style Wars might seem like an odd selection for a list of great rockumentaries, as the film doesn’t cover the terrain of rock ‘n’ roll, but rather the early days of hip-hop and rap. Also, music isn’t the central focus of the film. Instead, the film records the graffiti spray-painted onto subways and buildings by young artists expressing themselves with limited means. As a picture of inner-city life in New York in the early 1980s, it stands as one of the first features to depict the graffiti subculture, breakdancing and early hip-hop and rap, featuring key early tracks from the likes of the Sugarhill Gang and Grandmaster Flash. Although neither a rock film nor a concert movie, Style Wars does what only the best music documentaries manage to do: It not only spotlights groundbreaking music, but also offers a unique glimpse of a very specific era and cultural movement. "