Music Business Movies

In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. O...

An aging rock star trying to put together a new album in the face of an indifferent record label and a talentless producer. At the same time, he's str...

This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s. Free...

The film covers the conflict between a father and his son both being musicians. The father is the leader of a band making rock-music from the 60s but...

A girls only hotel in Austria, run by a man-hating grandmother. Her daughter and three pretty grand daughters are chased by men, nevertheless (and cha...

James Brown was the jewel in the crown, but the throne of Cincinnati’s King Records always belonged to its irascible founder, Syd Nathan. This is the...

Imagine waking up tomorrow and all music has disappeared. Just like that. What will remain when it is all gone: CDs, iPods, instruments?

Presented by Paul McGann, The Cavern Club and LA Factual have come together to produce "The Cavern Club: The Beat Goes On" - a unique documentary feat...

One of the dominating figures in Elvis Presley's life was his manager, who was known as the "Colonel". No other relationship in Elvis' life was as con...

Adrian Edmondson narrates a documentary chronicling the story of Stiff Records, a tiny independent that took music out of the boardroom and gave it ba...

Escape from everyday life in freedom and community and live utopias - for many organizers and artists, the secret of the music festivals that make cul...

A naive girl with dreams of stardom, marries a powerful man, who abuses her while running a foundation that protects abused women.

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vani...

Freddy wants to be a star. He writes and performs his own songs, but has no record contract yet. He has an idea to form a group of back-up vocalists a...

Get to know the mastermind behind The Beatles’ worldwide domination, from an unknown Liverpool band to uncontested modern musical icons.

In the mid-1990s reports emerged that Prince had fallen into dispute with his record company. Having signed what was ostensibly a new, 100 million dol...

In "Kate Nash: Underestimate the Girl," a platinum-selling pop dissident turns her back on the music business and learns how to survive as a punk rene...

An Honest and hilarious look at the music industry through the eyes of an all girl rock band.