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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...

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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...

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Masked and Anonymous (2003)

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...

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Renaldo and Clara (1978)

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...

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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...

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Hearts of Fire (1987)

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...

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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...

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Don't Look Back (1967)

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,...

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The Last Waltz (1978)

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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