Music Documentaries

The songs, the scenes and the people who made them.

• Music & Musicians

Topics

• The Story of a Song documentaries
• Rock & Pop documentaries
• Hip Hop, R&B & Soul documentaries
• Festivals, Scenes & Movements documentaries

• The Legendary Song That Became the Rick Roll | The Story Of (23 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Because I Got High' by Afroman (23 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'It Wasn’t Me' by Shaggy (26 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' by Eiffel 65 (25 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'A Thousand Miles' by Vanessa Carlton (22 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Last Resort' by Papa Roach (27 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Teenage Dirtbag' by Wheatus (24 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Get Busy' by Sean Paul (22 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Thong Song' by Sisqó (19 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Who Let The Dogs Out' by Baha Men (26 min, VICE)
• Britain's Illegal Rave Renaissance: LOCKED OFF (38 min, VICE)
• The Story of 'Unwritten' By Natasha Bedingfield (22 min, VICE)
• Chaos & Moonshine: The Redneck Rave | Fringes (22 min, VICE)
• I Want To Be A K-Pop Idol: Can Intensive Bootcamps In South Korea Help? - Part 2 | Talking Point (23 min, CNA Insider)
• Caribbean Narco Rappers (20 min, VICE)
• My Bad Sister - Inside The UK's Rave Underground (41 min, VICE)
• Illegal Raves in Europe's Only War Zone: BIG NIGHT OUT Ukraine (44 min, VICE)
• Yes, MAGA Rap Is Real And Trump Supporters Love It | Fringes (47 min, VICE)
• Kyiv's techno scene and Russia's war (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The Story of 'Man! I Feel Like A Woman!' by Shania Twain (22 min, VICE)
• The global rise of afro house music (52 min, DW Documentary)
• The healing power of music - How does music impact us? (41 min, DW Documentary)
• Michael Lang: The Bizarre Story Behind Woodstock Music Festival | Woodstock (51 min, Timeline - World History Documentaries)
• The Logistics of Music Festivals (22 min, Wendover Productions)
• India’s Hijabi Teen Rapper Crushing Stereotypes From Mumbai Slum: Life Of Saniya MQ | Limitless (47 min, CNA Insider)
• 'Montage of Heck' - VICE Meets Kurt Cobain Documentary Filmmaker Brett Morgen (28 min, VICE)
• The Beatles: Made in Merseyside (52 min, Real Stories)
• The Guča Trumpet Festival (26 min, DW Documentary)
• The Soul of Music: Exploring Chief Xian’s Ancestral Memory (35 min, National Geographic)
• How Joe Budden Became the Biggest Voice in Hip-Hop Media (45 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Lost in Vagueness: The Legend of Glastonbury Festival (82 min, Real Stories)
• German electronic music and its star DJs – Felix Jaehn, Paul van Dyk, Alle Farben (42 min, DW Documentary)
• The Soul of Music: Meklit Hadero Tells Stories of Migration (38 min, National Geographic)
• Peter Gabriel on Music (27 min, The School of Life)
• DJ Premier on Jay-Z, Gang Starr and Becoming One of Music’s Biggest Producers (56 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Just Blaze on Shaping Roc-A-Fella's Sound, Writing Hits and Disrupting the Video Game Industry (41 min, Bloomberg Originals)
• Singapore's Golden Music Era: The Executive Behind 1960s Bands Who Beat The Beatles | Untold Legends (47 min, CNA Insider)
• Kyiv's creative revolution - Techno raves and art installations in Ukraine (43 min, DW Documentary)
• Violent Rap: From the Street to Pop Mainstream (50 min, ENDEVR)
• ABBA star, Bjorn Ulvaeus, on Mamma Mia and Brexit sadness (21 min, The Economist)
• Jazz musician Arun Ghosh on the inspiration of Saint Francis | National Gallery (13 min, The National Gallery)
• Hip-Hop: Sublevación Urbana (34 min, Subterrain Films TV)