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Actors: Donovan, Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Mickie Most
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Performer, Songwriter
Actors: Patsy Puttnam, Jack Wild, Donald Pleasence, John Hurt, Donovan, Michael Hordern
Synopsis: The Pied Piper eschews the romanticism of Robert Browning's poem and returns to the grim Grimm Brothers source. Pop singer Donovan plays the 14th century piper hired by duplicitous burgomaster Donald Pleasance to rid the town of Hamelin of its rats. The piper does what he's asked, but is denied Read More
Actors: The Grateful Dead, Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, Donovan, The Kinks, New Riders of the Purple Sage
Synopsis: Bickershaw Festival documents a 1972 concert held in England. Among the bands who performed over the course of the three day event were {$The Grateful Dead, The Kinks, Captain Beefheart, and Donovan. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Donovan, Astrella Celeste, Tom Mansi, Stewart Lawrence, Mike Love
Synopsis: Donovan: The Donovan Concert - Live in L.A. captures a 2007 show by the British folk star. He performs over a dozen of his most well-known compositions including "Jennifer Juniper," "Hurdy Gurdy Man," "Mellow Yellow," and "Sunshine Superman." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More
Crew: Featured Music
Synopsis: Political proverb states that a population in fear is a population that is easily controlled. In this documentary exploring the climate of fear that existed in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, filmmaker Adam Curtis explores the possibility that Western Read More
Synopsis: In the spring and summer of 1972, George McGovern, a Democratic senator from South Dakota, achieved the seemingly impossible. Backed by a motley collection of Prairie populists, old-school liberals, and young people disenchanted with the war in Vietnam, McGovern overwhelmed longtime party Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Actors: Sergi López, Marie Trintignant, François Cluzet, Christopher Lambert, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Synopsis: First-time director Samuel Benmchetrit's 2003 debut Janis et John (Janis and John) follows the comedic exploits of a down-on-his luck insurance salesman as he attempts to make up for some very poor financial decisions. Pablo Sterni (Sergi Lopez), the aforementioned insurance salesman, has, until Read More
Synopsis: This video features 11 psychedelic rock & roll songs being performed by their original artists. Donovan sings "Atlantis," the Moody Blues play "Knights in White Satin," and Manfred Mann performs his hit "The Mighty Quinn." The Who's "Happy Jack," the Nice's "Hang on to a Dream," Blue Cheer's Read More
Actors: Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom
Synopsis: In the episode "The Deep South," the Planet Express crew goes fishing on their day off. Bender catches huge fish and ends up sinking the whole ship. The crew experiences their version of the lost city of Atlantis myth by landing in Atlanta, an old U.S. city that now exists at the bottom of the Read More
Actors: Marianne Faithfull, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan
Synopsis: In 1965, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker accompanied Bob Dylan to England to make a film about the singer/songwriter's British tour. At the time, no one could have known how fortuitous Pennebaker's timing would prove to be. Within a few months of this tour, Dylan would forsake his role as The Conscience Read More
Crew: Songwriter
Actors: Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, William Hurt, Keanu Reeves, Miriam Margolyes
Synopsis: Lawrence Kasdan's black comedy about a wife's ultimate revenge against her womanizing husband is based on a true story about the wife of a pizzeria owner who decided to kill her cheating husband. When her attempt to murder him failed, the husband refused to press charges against her because he Read More
Actors: Byron Thames, Jonathan Emerson, Nicholas Cascone, Jason Tomlins, Chris Burgard, Glenn Morshower, Richard Brooks
Synopsis: 84 Charlie Mopic offers the Vietnam experience as seen through the eyes of a combat photographer (Mopic is slang for the Army Motion Picture Unit). Byron Thames plays a combat cameraman who has already been on two tours of duty; he goes on a third because he is intrigued by a reel of film found on Read More
Actors: Helen Shaver, Rae Dawn Chong, Catherine Oxenberg, Martin Sheen, James Coburn
Synopsis: Several music and film celebrities recall their former lives in this reincarnation-oriented feature with musical accompaniment. K.D. Lang considers herself the reincarnation of the late country singer Patsy Cline, Martin Sheen gives a rambling monologue about his near-death experience while Read More
Actors: Peter Cook, Terry Jones
Synopsis: The Secret Policeman's Private Parts, the second of two concert films produced on behalf of Amnesty International, is better photographed than the first (The Secret Policeman's Other Ball) but not quite as enjoyable. As in the earlier film, the show is stolen by the Monty Python aggregation: John Cleese Read More
Synopsis: The Mamas & The Papas, Dion, and several other artists from rock-n-roll's golden age come together in this concert release from K-Tel DVD. Recorded in 1988, Rockin' the Night Away: Life From Palm Springs includes "A Teenager In Love" by Dion, "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tommy James & The Read More
Actors: Rowan Atkinson, Pete Townshend, Alan Bennett, John Bird, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Jeff Beck
Synopsis: The highlights of two benefit concerts staged in support of Amnesty International are collected in this British performance film, which features ample helpings of both music and comedy. The members of the Monty Python comedy troupe serve as headliners, performing live variations on some of their Read More
Actors: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb, Frankie Howerd
Synopsis: Pop star Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees star in this musical, loosely based on the popular 1967 Beatles album Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In the story, Billy Shears, who now heads the Lonely Hearts Club Band, is the grandson of the famous Sergeant Pepper. He is confronted by the Read More
Synopsis: Aliens from Spaceship Earth is a "four-waller" documentary from the Chariot of the Gods? school of speculative filmmaking. Are there, or have their ever been, extraterrestrials in our midst? This program speculates that there are, and that such aliens have taken distinctly human form - that of Read More
Actors: Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Alec Guinness, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham
Synopsis: St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was electrifying. Even today, many people are moved by his visionary message of universal toleration. Twelfth-century Italy had an exceptionally grim and regimented society, but the Read More
Actors: Donovan
Actors: The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter
Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron
Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More
Actors: Carol White, Terence Stamp, John Bindon, Kate Williams, Queenie Watts
Synopsis: Acclaimed British neo-realist filmmaker Ken Loach made his theatrical debut with this bleak kitchen-sink drama. Joy (Carol White) leads a life that makes her name seem like some sort of a cruel joke. Her husband Tom (John Bindon) is a second-rate burglar who shows neither her nor their infant Read More
Actors: Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan
Synopsis: An invaluable record of the Newport Folk Festival, the most important annual showcase for roots music from the late '50s through the next decade, Festival packs an amazing amount of information into its brief running time. Director Murray Lerner assembled footage he and several other Read More
Actors: Conrad Rooks, Jean-Louis Barrault, William S. Burroughs, Paula Pritchett, Allen Ginsberg
Synopsis: The bizarre hallucinations of a heroin addict in withdrawal provide the basis for this unstructured, autobiographical film by director Conrad Rooks. It begins as he arrives strung-out in Paris for a sleep-cure. As the strange visions begin, the story jumps haphazardly between reality and his Read More
Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More
Synopsis: This documentary video features the PBS special on the life of the 60's psychedelic singer. Special guest's include Rev. Gary Davis. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Ken Russell, Siân-Elizabeth Rees, So What, Gary Genna, Bob Appleyard
Synopsis: By all accounts an ardent enthusiast of folk music, iconoclastic and controversial English director Ken Russell (Lisztomania, The Rainbow) headlines the documentary In Search of the English Folk Song. In this program, Russell undertakes a long journey from New Forest, Hampshire, to Cropredy for Read More
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