Blues Music Movies

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...

"Bad Woman Blues - Beth Hart" celebrates the music and voice of a woman who enriches rock and blues with emotion, authenticity, and honesty.

Four days prior to being diagnosed with a malignant lung tumor, Luther Allison played a blistering show in Montreal; it was filmed for later airplay...

Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London,...

America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also...

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular...

Danny fulfilled his great ambition to play and record in his native Cincinnati's King Records studio. On this unique video, he illegally enters the...

The work of art in the age of genetic reproduction-- Based on the practice of lip-reading, this short animated film explores the visual "code" of...

An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in...

Blues Story presents an impressionistic history of one of the most lasting art forms America has ever produced - as told for the first time through...

A travelogue through the Mississippi delta searching for the heart and the spirit of the blues.

Soul singer Dana Masters traces the story of Ottilie Patterson, who for a dazzling few years in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a pioneer of...

Documentary which celebrates the music of Louisiana.

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who...

A documentary short about Charley Patton included in the box set "The Definitive Charley Patton - 75th Anniversary Edition". The film contains...

In the late 1980s, Tim Duffy, a penniless North Carolina musicology student, became deeply involved in Winston-Salem's drinkhouse music scene, an...

By the time "It's A Mean Old World" was filmed, Reverend Pearly Brown had been struggling to survive singing gospel music for nearly 40 years. While...