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Synopsis: The concert film A Night at the Family Dog captures an evening of music performed in September of 1970 at the Family Dog Ballroom in San Francisco. Three of the leading bands of the era - Santana, The Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane - perform both individually and in a jam sessions together Read More
Crew: Featured Music
Actors: Ricky Jay, Joe Craven, Jim Kerwin, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman
Synopsis: In the early '60s, David Grisman and Jerry Garcia were two bluegrass enthusiasts in their early twenties who met after they had seen each other perform. Garcia went on to lead the legendary psychedelic band the Grateful Dead, while Grisman became a world-class mandolin player who blended jazz and Read More
Synopsis: While psychedelic rock pioneers the Grateful Dead had been making audio recordings of their shows since the 1960s, in the late '80s -- when their popularity had grown enough that they were regularly playing sports arenas and stadiums -- they started using video screens on-stage to provide a clear Read More
Synopsis: This retrospective program from Music Video Distributors takes a look at the late rock guitar legend John Cipollina. Featuring archival footage of live performances by the Quicksilver Messenger Service member, who passed away in 1980, John Cipollina: Electric Guitarslinger also includes reflective Read More
Synopsis: No rock band ever attracted a more loyal audience than the Grateful Dead, whose followers would often travel alongside the band, drifting from show to show, selling food, T-shirts, or trinkets in the parking lots of their venues in order to pay for their tickets, or simply panhandling from more Read More
Synopsis: The ultimate psychedelic video trip, Headcandy is a mind-twisting array of multi-colored abstract visual imagery that bends lights, hues and shapes into an awe-inspiring onslaught for the eyes. Put on the enclosed prism 3-D glasses and light up the enclosed incense to make the trip even more Read More
Synopsis: This video offers a tribute to Jerry Garcia, the San Francisco "guitarist with a missing finger" and central member of the Grateful Dead -- one of the few famous 1960s bands that lasted through the '90s. Despite his discomfort with publicity, Garcia was admired by many fans and may have Read More
Actors: Jerry Garcia, Jim Capaldi
Synopsis: Traffic: The Last Great Traffic Jam documents a 1994 tour by the reformed band that featured Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi performing together under that name for the first time in over twenty years. The film features a dozen songs performed live including "Dear Mr. Fantasy," "John Barleycorn Read More
Actors: Bill Monroe
Synopsis: Bill Monroe was inarguably the single most important and influential figure in the history of bluegrass music. Fusing the fiddle and madolin sounds of the Eastern Kentucky Hills with the guitars of rural blues and adding a streamlined speed and emotional passion to the music, Monroe was truly the Read More
Synopsis: A Spanish language version of this program is available. Great musicians come together to perform salsa, mambo and improv works. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Branford Marsalis, Robert Hurst, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Sting, Jerry Garcia
Synopsis: In the mid-'80s, saxophonist Branford Marsalis emerged as one of the most acclaimed (and most popular) new artists in jazz. A member of a distinguished musical family and a stylistic innovator as comfortable working with pop and rock musicians as fellow jazz artists, Marsalis brought challenging Read More
Synopsis: The Grateful Dead had been archiving audio recordings of their concerts for years when, in the 1980s, they also began keeping a library of video recordings of their shows, often from large-venue performances where a multi-camera video setup would be used to provide a better view for those in the Read More
Synopsis: On July 8, 1990, the Grateful Dead played one of their legendary three-hour-plus shows for a sold-out crowd at Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Stadium. To augment their famous light show (and to give folks in the back a better view of the band), the group employed a multi-camera video setup that allowed Read More
Synopsis: Deadheads might feel a chill watching this release that features sets from a 1989 Grateful Dead show in East Troy, WI. Sitting front and center is Jerry Garcia who seems livelier than usual. His subdued antics are familiar to well-traveled fans, many of whom attended this same concert. Less hearty Read More
Crew: Director
Synopsis: This 55-minute "trip" into the music of the The Grateful Dead is unlike any other celluloid project the group has attempted. Most Dead movies involve an effort to capture the live experience of Dead culture and energy, but they fall considerably short for obvious reasons. Grateful Dead: So Far, is Read More
Synopsis: They used to say "There's nothing like a Grateful Dead concert," but this video offers the next best thing -- two and a half hours of the Dead onstage at Oakland Coliseum on New Year's Eve, as they stretch out (as only the Dead could) on such songs as Bertha, Uncle John's Band, The Music Never Read More
Crew: Executive Producer
Actors: Willie Nelson, Jerry Garcia, Johnny Paycheck, Bo Diddley
Synopsis: In this superficial look at the "Hell's Angels" bikers, directors Richard Chase, Kevin Keating, and Leno Gast have chosen to let the inarticulate bikers offer confused explanations for their Nazi SS insignias and swastikas, and why they hit "disobedient" women. At the same time, they are unfairly Read More
Synopsis: This semi-documentary offers an interesting look at the infamous biker organization and makes the slightly slanted point, that despite their reputation as hell-raisers and violent thugs-on-wheels, they do in fact live by a strict code of honor and a genuine love of the road. The film chronicles Read More
Actors: Andy Kaufman, Bernadette Peters, Randy Quaid, Kenneth McMillan, Melanie Mayron
Synopsis: Heartbeeps stars Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as domestic robots who fall in love and run off together. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Even though the long, strange trip engineered by the The Grateful Dead finally reached the end of the line in 1995, there still remains extensive documentation of the journey. Dead Ahead is two hours of live concert psychedelia from the band's legendary string of shows at Radio City Music Hall. Read More
Actors: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Leonard Nimoy, Veronica Cartwright, Jeff Goldblum
Synopsis: This remake of the 1956 horror classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers moves the action from small-town USA to 1970s San Francisco and replaces at least part of the original's psychological horror with special effects. Spores rain forth, unseen, from outer space, and soon strange flowers begin Read More
Actors: The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Donna Jean Godchaux, Keith Godchaux, Mickey Hart
Synopsis: Shot December 31, 1978, The Grateful Dead: The Closing of Winterland is a concert film featuring the seminal jam band performing a six-plus hour show to mark the last night of San Francisco's legendary Winterland Arena. In front of an audience that included such celebrity guests as Dan Aykroyd Read More
Actors: The Grateful Dead, Susan R. Crutcher
Synopsis: Even if you're not a "Deadhead," you'll find much to enjoy in The Grateful Dead Movie. This grandiosely labelled "Movie" is a free-form documentary of the Frisco-based rock group, replete with animation sequences and precious concert clips. Jerry Garcia, the head Dead, is credited as co-director. Read More
Synopsis: This video is an entertainment anthology revolving around the history of Video Free America. Featured are music celebrities like the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Jesse Colin Young, and Jerry Garcia. Also, the work of artist Sal Lewitt, social commentaries, etc. are presented. ~ Tana Hobart, All Read More
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