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Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan fortunately does not have to rely on his movie career to uphold his reputation as the single most influential ock musician of the 1960s. His best-known movie appearances include the concert film The Last Waltz and... more
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Sunshine Superman: The Journey of Donovan (2008)
Cast: Franco Zeffirelli   
Tags: Music Music History 
Length: 180min

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song (2007)
Cast: Norman Lear   
Tags: Vocal Music Music History Music Culture & Society Social History History Biography 
Length: 91min
The reflective documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song explores the legacy of revered American folk singer and activist Seeger - written and directed by filmmaker Jim Brown when Seeger was in his late '80s. In lieu of recounting the narrative of...

Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream (2007)
Cast: Peter Bogdanovich   
Tags: Music 
Length: 238min
Filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich turns to the documentary form for the first time with this lengthy profile of one of ock and roll's enduring talents. Tom Petty: Running Down A Dream presents an in-depth look at Petty's life and career and his work with...

Cast: Jeff Bridges Jessica Lange John Goodman Luke Wilson Ed Harris   
Tags: Musical Drama Comedy Drama Political Satire Ensemble Film 
Length: 112min
Enigmatic ock legend Bob Dylan stars as an enigmatic ock legend (talk about a casting coup!) in this purposefully eccentric satiric comedy. Uncle Sweetheart (John Goodman) is an unscrupulous concert promoter who has figured out a way to cash in on...

Cast: Bob Dylan Sam Shepard   
Tags: Music Theater Art Film Concerts 
Length: 232min
Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his ~Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he, his wife Sara Dylan, along with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and other counterculture figures perform philosophically based...

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)
Tags: Music History Music History Biography 
Length: 207min
Renowned director Martin Scorsese's documentary No Direction Home: Bob Dylan chronicles the career of the singer and songwriter during the tumultuous years between 1961 and 1966. Dylan allowed Scorsese to have access to hours of footage that had never...

Cast: Rupert Everett John Barry   
Tags: Musical Drama Drama 
Length: 90min
This uninspiring drama was unfortunately the last feature film directed by Richard Marquard and was released posthumously. Bob Dylan plays the retired and reclusive rock star (there's a stretch) Billy Parker who falls for aspiring rocker Molly McGuire...

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)
Cast: Sam Peckinpah James Coburn Jason Robards, Jr. Kris Kristofferson   
Tags: Revisionist Western Buddy Film Western Outlaw (Gunfighter) Film 
Length: 106min
A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to...

Cast: D.A. Pennebaker   
Tags: Biography Culture & Society Music Social Issues Vocal Music 
Length: 95min
In 1965, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker accompanied Bob Dylan to England to make a film about the singer/songwriter's British tour. At the time, no one could have known how fortuitous Pennebaker's timing would prove to be. Within a few months of this tour,...

Cast: Martin Scorsese   
Tags: Music Biography Concerts 
Length: 117min
Martin Scorsese's documentary of the 1976 final performance of the legendary Sixties rock group The Band is at once a show featuring some of the greatest rock performers of their generation and a bittersweet look back at an era that was just beginning...
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