Music Documentaries
From Broadway to Abbey Road, Glyndebourne to Woodstock, the Isle of Wight to Altamont, welcome to a world of music on film. Whether your taste is Son House or Sviatoslav Richter, Bob Dylan or Benjamin Britten, there's sure to be something for you here.
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Tony Palmer, 1972
£11.99
Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire
Originally made in 1972 and directed by celebrated British filmmaker Tony Palmer,...
Malik Bendjelloul, 2011
£10.99
Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary following two South African fans of the 1970s musician Rodriguez as t...
Various (Compilation), 1912-2011
£14.99
Here's a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs a...
From Cornwall’s 'sexy, savage’ Spring-time Mayday r...
Tony Palmer, 1986
£12.59
Mitsuko Uchida: Mozart in Japan
'Mozart in Japan' is Tony Palmer's film of the triumphant return of the Japanese ...
Tony Palmer, 2005
£13.49
Margot (Palmer, 2005)
A documentary looking at the life of Margot Fonteyn, the most famous ballerina England has ever p...
Carol Morley, 2000-2004
£8.99
The Alcohol Years
The Alcohol Years is a poetic retrieval of the drunken and promiscuous life Carol Morley spent in...
Tony Palmer, 2011
£12.59
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter
Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter is Tony Palmer’s new documentary on the composer Gu...
Peter Whitehead, 1965-67
£9.49
Peter Whitehead and the Sixties
Two films from Peter Whitehead, a chronicler of the counterculture as it happened...
Bert Stern, 1958
£13.49
Jazz on a Summer's Day
One of the great jazz films, filmed at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958. Jimmy Guiffre, The Chic...
Malik Bendjelloul, 2011
£13.99
Searching for Sugar Man
Documentary following two South African fans of the 1970s musician Rodriguez as t...
Wim Wenders, 1999
£13.99
Buena Vista Social Club
A wonderful documentary from Wim Wenders, who accompanied Ry Cooder back to Cuba ...
Ken Burns, 2001
£29.99
Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns
Over six years in the making, 'Jazz' is the definive history of this most influen...
Tony Palmer, 1984
£13.49
Puccini
The tragic story of Doria Manfredi and her relationship with Giacomo Puccini was suppressed for a...
Scott Hicks, 2007
£16.99
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
In July 2005, Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Phili...
Reiner E. Moritz, 2012
£16.99
Music in the Air: A History of Classical Music on Television
Documentary charting the way classical music has be...
Various (Documentary), 1959
£21.49
A Year to Remember: The 1950s
Using rare news footage and interviews from the incredible British Pathé archive,...
Daniele Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub, 2004
£9.99
Three Films by Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
Contains The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (1968...
Various (Documentary), 2011
£20.49
A Year to Remember: The 1960s
Using rare news footage and interviews from the incredible British Pathé archive,...
