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Language
English
Formats
Description
The love story of country stars Johnny Cash and June Carter during the early years of Cash's career with Sun Records in Memphis, where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. With his driving freight-train chords, steel-eyed intensity and a voice as dark as the night, Cash revolutionized music and forges his legacy as a genuine Amercian icon.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Rock star John Norman Howard has noticed that his career has begun to decline. Too many years of concerts, bad managers and life on the road have made him cynical. Then he meets the innocent, pure and very talented singer Esther Hoffman. John shows Esther the way to stardom while forsaking his own career. As they fall in love, her success only makes his decline even more apparent.
3) Respect
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, 'Respect' is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A television movie event based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing in rural Tennessee. This once-in-a-lifetime special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat, vividly described in the well-known song of the film's title that helped make Parton who she is today. Set in the...
5) Lost highway
Publisher
Seville Pictures
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A successful jazz musician whose marriage is on the rocks, a man in black who threatens to expose him, a young mechanic with links to a mobster, and the mobster's moll are all riders on the lost highway, trapped in their worlds of desire, destiny and unknown destination where the truth is always a short way further down the road.
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Description
When his band votes him out due to his embarrasing musical antics, Dewey has to make the rent somehow. After intercepting a call for his substitute-teacher roomie Ned, Dewey finds himself in front of a class of elite elementary school students. Dewey decides to take on the music program and makes it his goal to teach them the gospel of rock and roll. His ulterior motive is to get them to compete against his former band for a cash prize.
8) Bird
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
The life of legendary jazz musician Charlie "Yardbird" Parker, directed and produced by jazz fan, Clint Eastwood. The film uses actual recordings by Parker with the backgrounds removed, and accompaniment by modern musicians attuned to the Yardbird's improvisations.
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930's, the fictional Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women.
11) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...
12) Bye bye Birdie
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Language
English
Description
When rock star Conrad Birdie gets drafted, his manager organizes a nationwide contest in which one lucky girl wins a farewell kiss on The Ed Sullivan show.
13) I'm not there
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Six characters recreate different stages in Bob Dylan's career, from Greenwich Village folk singer to electric guitar trailblazer to born-again preacher.
14) La bamba
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The life of rock and roll legend Richie Valens bursts across the screen in this celebrated, music-filled movie with star-making performances. Depicts the 17-year-old Mexican-American's rocket rise to fame from field laborer to rock star.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The up-and-down and then up-again story of musician Dewey Cox. Dewey's songs would change a nation. On his rock 'n roll spiral, Dewey sleeps with 411 women, marries three times, has 22 kids and 14 step-kids, stars in his own 70s TV show, collects friends ranging from Elvis to the Beatles to a chimp. He becomes addicted to and then kicks about every drug known to man. Despite it all, Cox grows into a national icon and eventually earns the love of a...
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A bored, retired rock star learns that his father is close to death, and travels to New York to reconcile with him, only to arrive too late. He embarks on a quest to find his father's nemesis and persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal taking refuge in the U.S.
17) Rock my world
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
America's hottest new rock band is hiding out at Lord and Lady Foxley's country estate in England. Natalie, a hot and talented new bass player fills in for the band's frontman who has mysteriously disappeared. Meanwhile Lord and Lady are masquerading as servants in their own mansion which leads to a clash of cultures and a roller coaster ride on the wild side.
18) Ring of fire
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Depicts the life of country musician June Carter and her love affair with her husband Johnny Cash.
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Evie is a dull wallflower who works in a dead-end job. She becomes obsessed with struggling musician named Drumstrings Casey, who sings at a local club. Through a fanatic event, Evie comes into focus and Casey decides to capitalize on the attention it ends up drawing both of them. Then things turns personal.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The Partridge family is back and this time they meet a princess, a convict, a biker, and a millionaire while taking on rogue computers, racehorses, crooks, crushes, and even a flash flood. Join mom, Shirley and kids, Keith, Laurie, Danny, Tracy, and Chris as they take their talent on the road.
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