http://documentaryheaven.com Welcome To Documentary Heaven!! Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/ http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:06:24 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6392 This is a short 16 minute documentary from Vice exploring London’s original and current illegal underground radio scenes.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/pirate-radio/feed/ 3 http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/ http://documentaryheaven.com/planet-rock-the-story-of-hip-hop-and-the-crack-generation/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:02:09 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6385 twenty-five years after crack cocaine ravaged American cities,this documentary explores how the drug also transformed popular culture, especially hip-hop. Narrated and executive produced by Ice-T, "Planet Rock: The Story of Hip Hop and the Crack Generation" is the first documentary to focus specifically on the connections between crack and hip-hop. Based primarily on the first-person accounts of four famous dealers-turned-rappers, the film also widens its lens at points to show how crack changed America culturally, socially and politically. Using rare footage, photos, and animation, all set to the beats and rhymes of the iconic hip hop tracks of the day, the documentary explores how media hysteria, racism and political reaction produced policies and laws that have left us with the largest -- and most disproportionately African-American -- prison population in the world. Crack first appeared in the early 1980s, but by 1986, it was raging through the inner cities of America like wildfire... 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Well shot in color, it’s an important historical document capturing Kuti in stage and home environments that were most crucial to his life and work.Music is a weapon of the future / music is the weapon of the progressives / music is the weapon of the givers of life.” Fela Kuti... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/fela-kuti/feed/ 1 http://documentaryheaven.com/sun-ra-brother-from-another-planet/ http://documentaryheaven.com/sun-ra-brother-from-another-planet/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:10:13 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6378 Sun Ra was born on the planet Saturn some time ago. The best accounts agree that he emerged on Earth as Herman Blount, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1914, although Sun Ra himself always denied that Blount was his surname. He returned to Saturn in 1993 after creating a stunningly variegated and beautiful assemblage of earthly and interplanetary music, most notably with his fervently loyal Arkestra.Sun Ra and his Arkestra were the subject of a few documentary films, notably Robert Mugge's 'A Joyful Noise' (1980), which interspersed performances and rehearsals with Sun Ra's commentary on various subjects ranging from today's youth to his own place in the cosmos.Today's documentary, Don Letts' 'Sun Ra, Brother From Another Planet' from 2005, reuses some of Mugge's material and includes some additional interviews.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/sun-ra-brother-from-another-planet/feed/ 4 http://documentaryheaven.com/joy-division/ http://documentaryheaven.com/joy-division/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:59:41 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6365 Great documentary on the revolutionary British punk group Joy Division, and about lead singer Ian Curtis, whom committed suicide before the peak of their popularity. Joy Division later went on to become the popular new wave group New Order.... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/joy-division/feed/ 8 http://documentaryheaven.com/why-you-do-this/ http://documentaryheaven.com/why-you-do-this/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:24:10 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6341 This documentary is a personal story told from the perspective of satellite engineer and vocalist Michael Dafferner, who is a member of an unknown "math-core" metal band called Car Bomb. In 2007 Michael ventures out on his first U.S. tour and discovers that performing in an unknown band playing an unknown genre of music is not the ego boosting experience he was hoping for. The next year Car Bomb is offered a tour with the goth-punk groups Gorgeous Frankenstein and Bella Morte who offer the prospect of playing for large groups of people. Several thousands of dollars in debt and dozens of wasted vacation days later, the band finishes its disappointing tour. Finally, in 2009, Car Bomb is offered a tour with the well known and respected bands Gojira and The Chariot. During this tour Michael learns what it would be like to live out his dream and the costs associated with making that dream come true. Includes interviews with Lamb of God, Gojira, Richard Christy and many more... 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This is recess in the supergroup sandbox, and the boys shared their toys. “Numb/Encore” and “Izzo/In the End” are near-perfect plays of seamless sonic moves and mic assists from heavy metal to hip-hop and back. Both artists have spent a little time in the other camp on various parts of their records, but it’s the collaboration that makes this album a winner. It may be true... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/jay-z-and-linkin-park-collision-course-documentary/feed/ 2 http://documentaryheaven.com/the-notorious-b-i-g-bigger-than-life/ http://documentaryheaven.com/the-notorious-b-i-g-bigger-than-life/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:03:03 +0000 Danny http://documentaryheaven.com/?p=6337 The Notorious B.I.G. is no doubt on every Hip-Hop fan’s short list of the greatest rappers of all time. Most importantly, B.I.G. was respected and revered by his peers in the game. Everyone from Jay Z to Tupac became captivated by his velvety flow and unparalleled rhyme style. He left behind a legacy that reached mythic status. Now for the first time the real Notorious B.I.G. is revealed in this fascinating film. Hear the stories firsthand from his closest friends and some of the biggest names in Hip-Hop — Diddy, Method Man, Easy Mo Bee, Matty C, E-40, Raekwon and many more. See raw, uncut footage of B.I.G. freestyling on the streets of New York, rare home video footage, a never-before-seen interview done with Biggie shortly before his death and undisclosed footage from the night of his murder. Directed by renowned Hip-Hop documentary filmmaker Peter Spirer (the Beef series, Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel), this comprehensive film is definitive proof that the Notorious B.I.G. wi... 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That is, until property development gets in the way and Lanfranchi's residents are given sixty days to vacate the building.The story of Lanfranchi's is told through ex-residents such as Lucas Abela (Justice Yeldham); an experimental musician who plays amplified sheets of broken glass with his mouth. A show he developed at Lanfranchi's and has since performed in more than forty countries. Others soon to be displaced include Dorkbot; a community of electrical engineering arti... Watch Now]]> http://documentaryheaven.com/lanfranchis-memorial-discotheque/feed/ 2