On a summer's day in 1958, fifty seven of the era's greatest jazz musicians gathered together in Harlem, New York City. The purpose - a now legendary photograph to be taken by top snapper Art Kane. This is the fascinating story of that day and the people, many of whom had never really met before, involved, with home-movie camera clips, some great musical interludes and interviews with many of the participants 35 years on. Narrated by Quincy Jones. find out more...

Five years in the making, 'Benda Bilili' follows a group of young street musicians from Kinshasa, Congo as they struggle to form a band. Four of the children are paraplegics, who get around in Mad Max style customized wheelchairs, and the other three are homeless street kids, whose star is Roger Landau, a teenage prodigy who plays on a single string guitar fashioned from a tin can.
'Benda Bilili' is a delightfully life affirming tale, both striking and touching. find out more...

Following Cobain from his earliest years in Aberdeen, WA, through the height of his fame, a visceral and detailed cinematic insight of an artist at odds with his surrou find out more...

Great doco about the early days of NY hip hop and life on the projects. One of the best features of this film is that it examines the political trajectory of Nas' career through his lyrics as well as the environment and familial situation that gave rise to his stardom. Must see for fans of his music. And anyone interested in the political side of rap music.

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Fifteen years ago, director Bradley Beesley began filming the exploits and performances of neighbour Wayne Coyne and his experimental, post-punk rock band The Flaming Lips in their hometown of Oklahoma City. More than a decade later, after sorting through 400 hours of tape representing fame and failure, break-ups and breakdowns, love and loss, 11 albums and a Grammy award, Fearless Freaks was born. A fascinating, intimate, exhaustive and ultimately mesmerising journey of an iconic band. find out more...

The music doc has long settled into a format: uncritical interviewees, archive footage, rise, fall, difficult comeback. But this one finds a terrific subject in Kathleen Hanna, the smart, dynamic, confrontational co-founder of the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement and lea find out more...

Documentary telling the story of the Young at Heart Chorus, a group of senior citizens in Massachusetts who meet regularly to sing contemporary and classic rock and pop songs including numbers by James Brown and Sonic Youth. The average age of the choir members is 81, and many of the singers overcome chronic health problems in order to participate. The film co find out more...