Blues Music Movies

A musical portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo in 1977: second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live...

A musical portrait of Texas bluesman 'Lightnin' Hopkins. The film includes interviews and a performance by Hopkins. Preserved by the Academy Film...

Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London,...

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular...

Recaptures the lives and times of Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ida Cox, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters, and the other legendary women who made blues music...

A showgirl trying to advance her career must hide the fact she is caring for a baby. With N.T.G. and The Florentine Gardens Revue, Ted Fio Rito and...

A musical portrait of Texas blues songster Mance Lipscomb.

Blurring the line between documentary and fiction, THE BLUES UNDER THE SKIN dramatizes the tumultuous relationship of a young couple (Onike Lee and...

Tom Waits 1985 performance of "16 Shells From A 30.6" and “In the Neighborhood” from the album 'Swordfish Trombones' and "Cemetery Polka"...

Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular...

They called him the The Ice Man and The Master of the Telecaster, but above all else, Albert Collins was a consummate Texas bluesman. Ice Man or not,...

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...

A travelogue through the Mississippi delta searching for the heart and the spirit of the blues.

America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also...

Begun as the official chronicle of a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame bus tour through New Orleans and southwestern Louisiana, it turns into a more...

Born in Indianola, Mississippi, Albert King remains one of the most influential blues guitarists of all time and enjoyed a successful career that...

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a...

Blues Story presents an impressionistic history of one of the most lasting art forms America has ever produced - as told for the first time through...

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who...