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Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
(1967) [PG]

Portrait of the artist as a young man. In spring, 1965, Bob Dylan, 23, spends three weeks in England. Pennebaker's camera follows him from airport to hall, from hotel room to public house, from conversation to concert. Joan Baez and Donovan, among others, are on hand. It's the period when Dylan...  More

Jazz: Disc 1 (Episodes 1-3)
(2002) [E]

Episodes 1-3 in the twelve episode series. Episode One – Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917: Jazz begins in New Orleans, a city with a richly diverse musical culture. Here in the 1890s, African-American musicians create a new music by mixing ragtime syncopations and the soulful feeling of the blues....  More

Jazz: Disc 2 (Episodes 4-6)
(2001) [E]

Episodes 4-6 in the twelve episode series. Episode Four – The True Welcome, 1929 – 1934: In 1929 the stock market collapses and the Great Depression begins. New York is now America’s jazz capital. On Broadway, Louis Armstrong revolutionises the popular song and his flair for...  More

Jazz: Disc 3 (Episodes 7-9)
(2001) [E]

Episodes 7-9 in the twelve episode series. Episode Seven – Swinging with Change, 1940 – 1942: As the 40s begin, jazz is changing. A small band of young musicians, led by the trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie and the brilliant saxophonist, Charlie Parker, have discovered a new way of...  More

Jazz: Disc 4 (Episodes 10-12)
(2001) [E]

Episodes 10-12 in the twelve episode series. Episode Ten – Irresistible, 1949 – 1955 A generation of musicians, faced with the overwhelming genius of Charlie Parker, embrace the challenge of moving beyond his innovations. Visionary pianist, Thelonius Monk, infuses bebop with his eccentric...  More

Chet Baker Live At Ronnie Scott's
(2002) [G]

Chet Baker's performance here is both fragile and passionate. Baker is joined by Van Morrison and reunited with Elvis Costello, with whom he recorded Shipbuilding at Ronnie Scott's intimate English club. Chet recalls winning a spot with Charlie Parker's band at the tender age of 22, but humbles...  More

Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge
(2007)

Often mistaken as a Jimi Hendrix concert, Rainbow Bridge is actually a dizzying mix of countercultural lifestyles and politics set Hawaii 1970. Directed by Chuck Wein, Rainbow Bridge tracks the journey of actress Pat Hartley across the Pacific to Maui, Hawaii. Once in Maui, Hartley is immediately...  More

Tony Bennett's New York
(2007) [G]

Tony Bennett, the man who gave the world I Left My Heart in San Francisco, has now been one of the world's top singing stars for almost half a century. His popularity and appeal spans all generations, won over by a musical style that is timeless in its appeal.

Born Anthony Dominick...  More

Marianne Faithfull: Dreaming My Dreams
(2007) [M]

Marianne Faithfull is one of the most famous and infamous artists of our time; an icon of the sixties. This DVD takes us through the early days of Marianne's life, who at 17 recorded the hit single As Tears Go By the first song ever to be written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. She talks...  More

The Chieftains: Water From The Well
(2000)

Journey with The Chieftains to the special places and people of the home countries that formed the band's musical soul. Derek Bell, Kevin Conneff, Martin Fay, Sean Keane, Matt Malloy and Paddy Moloney tell the tales of their earliest memories of Irish music. Their thoughtful and often amusing...  More