James Brown Movies

Explore Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved...

The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.

Hailed by one music reviewer as "the grooviest, wildest, slickest hit ever to pound the screen," "The T.A.M.I. Show" is an unrelenting rock...

A documentary on the legendary creator and victim of pop art. Warhol, revolutionary and controversial, was never afraid to break the mold and reshape...

Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.

On April 5, 1968, soul legend James Brown performed a concert in Boston that many say shielded that city from the kinds of devastating riots that...

Discover how television has reflected the African American experience in this retrospective of the medium's first half-century. Actors, writers and...

A protopunk music video.

Are you ready for some old-time rock and roll?! Then you are ready for the masters, the originators, the men who made the music, the "Legends of Rock...

When the film West Side Story was released in 1961, New York's reviled Puerto Rican community gained some visibility and, over time, both in Spanish...

Soul Power is a 2008 documentary film about the Zaire 74 music festival in Kinshasa which accompanied the Rumble in the Jungle heavyweight boxing...

A provocative look into the seven-year history of the series that gave hip hop a voice and broke color barriers, integrating MTV with rap. "Yo! MTV...

The Driver drag-races the Devil, in order to earn James Brown his soul.

James Brown's legacy has influenced rap, soul, funk and R&B. But along with his huge talent, there's a dark side to Brown's success that includes...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Rock Legends" "James Brown" "King Records" "Pure...

James Brown changed the face of American music forever. Abandoned by his parents at an early age, James Brown was a self-made man who became one of...

Two college boys from SoCal attend a spring break vacation at a ski lodge in Idaho to get insider tips on how the president of the ski club manages...

1997 indie about friendship and soul music, starring Bill Cobbs, Zachary Throne, and Christine Cavanaugh.

A rock band is invented by the government as a cover to find hostages in a remote castle in Albania held by communist enemies of the USA.

The Godfather of Soul tells his life story and features his greatest live performances.