Tag Results for "music"
by Steven Sebring
Premiere: December 30, 2009
Shot over 11 years by renowned fashion photographer Steven Sebring, this is an intimate portrait of the legendary rocker, poet and artist Patti Smith.
by Eric Daniel Metzgar
Premiere: July 7, 2009
When a guitarist suffers a brain hemorrhage onstage, doctors doubt he will emerge from a coma. The story of a family's astonishing struggle in the face of tragedy.
by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor
Premiere: June 23, 2009
Puerto Rican-American rapper Hamza Pérez pulled himself out of street life 12 years ago and became a Muslim. Now he must confront the realities of the post-9/11 world.
by Robert Elfstrom
Premiere: August 5, 2008
Fresh on the heels of his Folsom Prison album, Cash reveals the dark intensity and raw talent that made him a country music star and cultural icon.
by Banker White, Zach Niles
Premiere: June 27, 2007
Traumatized by physical injuries and brutal losses in Sierra Leone's civil war, a group of refugees fight back with the only means they have — music.
by Rogier Kappers
Premiere: August 22, 2006
Alan Lomax was "the song hunter," devoting his life to recording the world's folk tunes before they would permanently disappear with the rise of the modern music industry.
by Natalia Almada
Premiere: August 1, 2006
The proud Mexican tradition of corrido music provides both heartbeat and backbone to this rich examination of songs, drugs and dreams along the U.S./Mexico border.
by Mel Stuart
Premiere: September 7, 2004
P.O.V. brings back the cult favorite Wattstax, the 1973 documentary directed by Mel Stuart. In August 1972, seven years after the Watts riots, the legendary Stax recording label staged a benefit concert in Los Angeles for 90,000 people. As time went by, it became known as the Black Woodstock.
by Leah Mahan
Premiere: July 30, 2002
Ninety-one year old Howard 'Louie Bluie' Armstrong has two great loves: his music and artist Barbara Ward. Their experiences are captured in Armstrong's lively paintings and stories of nearly a century of American life.