Best music documentaries - Charts
Best music documentaries
1. Echoes: Pink Floyd (1972)
Belgium / West Germany, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Adrian Maben
Cast: David Gilmour, Nick Mason
2. Depeche Mode: Devotional (1993)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Anton Corbijn
Cast: David Gahan, Martin Gore
3. Slayer: Still Reigning (2004)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Dean Karr
Cast: Tom Araya, Kerry King
5. Stop Making Sense (1984)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
Cast: David Byrne, Jerry Harrison
6. Freddie Mercury: The Great Pretender (2012)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Rhys Thomas
Cast: Freddie Mercury, Brian May
7. Parkway Drive: Home Is for the Heartless (2012)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Ben Gordon
Cast: Winston McCall, Ben Gordon
8. Classic Albums: Nirvana - Nevermind (2005)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Bob Smeaton
Cast: Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
9. Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
Sweden / UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Malik Bendjelloul
Cast: Rodriguez, Malik Bendjelloul
11. Roger Waters: The Wall (2014)
UK, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Sean Evans, Roger Waters
Cast: Roger Waters, Darren Kent
13. Lemmy (2010)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Greg Olliver, Wes Orshoski
Cast: Lemmy, Alice Cooper
14. Sepultura: Third World Chaos (1995)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Peter Christopherson, Thomas Mignone
Cast: Max Cavalera, Phil Anselmo
15. Woodstock (1970)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Michael Wadleigh
Cast: Joan Baez, Roger Daltrey
16. Creating the Lord of the Rings Symphony: A Composer's Journey Through Middle-Earth (2004)
Canada, Documentary / Music
Cast: Howard Shore
19. When You're Strange (2009)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Tom DiCillo
Cast: Johnny Depp, John Densmore
22. Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid (2010)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Matthew Longfellow
Cast: Ozzy Osbourne, Bill Ward
23. The Glance of Music (2021)
Italy / Belgium, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast: Ennio Morricone, Quentin Tarantino
24. The Song Remains the Same (1976)
UK / USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Peter Clifton, Joe Massot
Cast: Robert Plant, Jimmy Page
25. One More Time with Feeling (2016)
UK / France, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Andrew Dominik
Cast: Nick Cave, Warren Ellis
26. Pink Floyd: The Story of Wish You Were Here (2012)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: John Edginton
Cast: Roger Waters, David Gilmour
28. Hrana - 4 filmy o Marekovi Brezovskom (2014)
Slovakia, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Patrik Lančarič
Cast: Oskar Rózsa, Ali Brezovský
29. The Greatest Night in Pop (2024)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Bao Nguyen
Cast: Lionel Richie, Bruce Springsteen
30. Pearl Jam Twenty (2011)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Cast: Cameron Crowe, Eddie Vedder
31. Foo Fighters: Back and Forth (2011)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: James Moll
Cast: Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic
32. Iron Maiden: Flight 666 (2009)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen
Cast: Bruce Dickinson, Lars Ulrich
33. Imagine: John Lennon (1988)
USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Andrew Solt
Cast: John Lennon, David Bowie
34. Heima (2007)
Iceland, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Dean DeBlois
Cast: Sigur Rós, Jon Thor Birgisson
35. Let It Be (1970)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cast: The Beatles, John Lennon
36. The Making of Meteora (2003)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Bill Berg-Hillinger
Cast: Chester Bennington, Rob Bourdon
37. 101 (1989)
UK / USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: D.A. Pennebaker, David Dawkins
Cast: Martin Gore, David Gahan
38. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster (2004)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky
Cast: Bruce Sinofsky, Kirk Hammett
39. Karel Kryl - kdo jsem…? (1993)
Czech Republic / Slovakia, Music / Poetic
Directed by: Dušan Rapoš
Cast: Karel Kryl
40. Global Metal (2007)
Canada, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen
Cast: Bruce Dickinson, Sam Dunn
41. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005)
Canada, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen
Cast: Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie
42. Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars (2017)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Lili Fini Zanuck
Cast: Eric Clapton, John Mayall
43. The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Emmett Malloy
Cast: Jack White, Meg White
44. Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage (2010)
Canada, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Sam Dunn, Scot McFadyen
Cast: Geddy Lee, Taylor Hawkins
45. Karel Kryl - Filmový portrét (1991)
Czechoslovakia, Documentary / Music
Directed by: František Spevák
Cast: Karel Kryl
46. Roxette: The Complete Collection 1987-2001 (2001)
Canada / USA, Music / Documentary
Cast: Marie Fredriksson, Per Gessle
47. Samsara (2011)
USA / Indonesia, Documentary / Adventure
Directed by: Ron Fricke
Cast: Neelesha Barthel, Robert Henline
48. Avicii: True Stories (2017)
Sweden, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Levan Tsikurishvili
Cast: Avicii
52. Black Sabbath: The End of The End (2017)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Dick Carruthers
Cast: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi
53. Joy Division (2007)
UK / USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Grant Gee
Cast: Peter Hook, Bernard Sumner
54. Classic Albums: Metallica - The Black Album (2001)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Matthew Longfellow
Cast: Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich
55. Iron Maiden: Behind the Iron Curtains (1985)
USA / UK, Documentary / Music
Cast: Bruce Dickinson, Adolf Hitler
56. The Prodigy: Their Law - The Singles 1990-2005 (2005)
UK, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Jonas Åkerlund, Traktor
Cast: Liam Howlett, Juliette Lewis
57. Year with Armin van Buuren, A (2012)
Netherlands, Music / Documentary
Cast: Armin van Buuren, Ferry Corsten
58. Eddie Vedder: Water on the Road (2011)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Brendan Canty, Christoph Green
Cast: Eddie Vedder
59. Oasis: Supersonic (2016)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Mat Whitecross
Cast: Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher
60. Chemical Brothers: Don't Think (2011)
Japan / UK, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Adam Smith
Cast: Tom Rowlands
61. Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Sacha Gervasi
Cast: Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Robb Reiner
62. The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Ray Manzarek
Cast: Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger
63. Scream for Me Sarajevo (2017)
UK / Bosnia-Herzegovina, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Tarik Hodžić
Cast: Bruce Dickinson, Fedja Stukan
64. It Might Get Loud (2008)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Davis Guggenheim
Cast: Jimmy Page, The Edge
65. Nightwish: End of Innocence (2003)
Finland, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Arto Halonen, Timo Halonen
Cast: Tarja Turunen, Tuomas Holopainen
66. Until the Light Takes Us (2008)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Aaron Aites, Audrey Ewell
Cast: Fenriz, Varg Vikernes
67. Marley (2012)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Kevin Macdonald
Cast: Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff
68. No Distance Left to Run (2010)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Will Lovelace, Dylan Southern
Cast: Damon Albarn, Graham Coxon
69. Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock (1992)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Erez Laufer, Chris Hegedus
Cast: Jimi Hendrix, Billy Cox
70. Classic Albums: Judas Priest - British Steel (2001)
UK, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Tim Kirkby
Cast: Rob Halford, K.K. Downing
73. Blink 182: The Urethra Chronicles (1999)
Australia / Canada, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Marcos Siega, Darren Doane
Cast: Mark Hoppus, Thomas DeLonge
74. Oasis Knebworth 1996 (2021)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Jake Scott
Cast: Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher
75. Sigur Rós - Inni (2011)
Iceland / UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Vincent Morisset
Cast: Sigur Rós, Georg Hólm
76. Porcupine Tree: Anesthetize (2010)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Lasse Hoile
Cast: Steven Wilson
77. Johnny Cash: American Rebel (2015)
Canada, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Derik Murray, Jordan Tappis
Cast: Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson
78. Powaqqatsi (1988)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Godfrey Reggio
Cast: Cheryl Tiegs, Pope John Paul II
79. Ozzy Osbourne: Don't Blame Me (1991)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Jeb Brien
Cast: Ozzy Osbourne, Jon Bon Jovi
80. Dio: Dreamers Never Die (2022)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Don Argott, Demian Fenton
Cast: Ronnie James Dio, Rob Halford
81. Petr Novák - Klaunova zpověď (2006)
Czech Republic, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Marie Motejlová-Manolová
Cast: Petr Novák, Zdeněk Juračka
82. Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007)
UK / USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Murray Lerner, Parris Patton
Cast: Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend
83. Meeting People Is Easy (1998)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Grant Gee
Cast: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood
84. The Filth and the Fury (2000)
UK / USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Julien Temple
Cast: John Lydon, Sid Vicious
85. Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America (2016)
UK, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Paul Dugdale
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
86. B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989 (2015)
Germany, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Jörg A. Hoppe, Heiko Lange
Cast: Blixa Bargeld, Nick Cave
87. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (2007)
Ireland / UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Julien Temple
Cast: Bono, John Cusack
88. Tri sestry: Best off video (2010)
Czech Republic, Music / Documentary
Cast: Lou Fanánek Hagen, Tomáš Doležal
89. Crossfire Hurricane (2012)
UK / USA, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Brett Morgen
Cast: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
90. Xzibit: Restless Xposed (2001)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Devin Dehaven, Gregory Dark
Cast: Xzibit, Snoop Dogg
91. Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M² (2019)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Wayne Isham
Cast: James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich
92. Pearl Jam: Single Video Theory (1998)
USA, Music / Documentary
Directed by: Mark Pellington
Cast: Eddie Vedder, Stone Gossard
93. Classic Albums: Deep Purple - Machine Head (2002)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Matthew Longfellow
Cast: Roger Glover, Ian Gillan
94. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne (2011)
UK, Documentary / Biography
Directed by: Mike Fleiss, Mike Piscitelli
Cast: Ozzy Osbourne, Jack Osbourne
95. Punk's Not Dead (2007)
USA, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Susan Dynner
Cast: John Doe, Henry Rollins
96. Motorband: Restart (2017)
Czech Republic, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Miloslav Levek
Cast: Libor Matejčik, Kamil Střihavka
97. 1/2 Man (1986)
Japan, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Gakuryū Ishii
Cast: Mark Chung, Blixa Bargeld
98. Arakain: 20 let natvrdo (2003)
Czech Republic, Music / Documentary
Cast: Aleš Brichta, Lucie Bílá
99. Heavy Metal: Louder Than Life (2006)
UK, Documentary / Music
Directed by: Dick Carruthers
Cast: Ian Paice, Rob Halford
