Cast: B.B. King

Direction Leon Gast

Cast Muhammad Ali · George Foreman · Don King · James Brown

Plot In 1974, boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman came to the still-emerging and politically unstable African nation of Zaire for what Ali called the "Rumble in the Jungle," a highly...

Direction Questlove

Cast Stevie Wonder · B.B. King · Nina Simone · Abbey Lincoln

Plot Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is a feature documentary about the legendary 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival which celebrated African American music and culture, and...

Direction Roko Belic

Cast Kongar-ol Ondar · Paul Pena · Richard Feynman · B.B. King

Plot The extraordinary odyssey of a U.S. musician of Cape Verdean ancestry to Tannu Tuva, in central Asia, where nomadic people throat sing more than one note simultaneously, using vocal harmonics....

Direction William Hechter · Peter Miller

Cast Lou Reed · Dion DiMucci · B.B. King · Joan Osborne

Plot Doc Pomus was the most unlikely of rock & roll icons. Paralyzed with polio as a child, Brooklyn-born Jerome Felder reinvented himself first as a blues singer, renaming himself Doc...

Direction Jon Brewer

Cast B.B. King · Bruce Willis · Carlos Santana · Eric Clapton

Plot The untold true American story of an orphan boy from the heart of the Mississippi Delta who rose to music stardom around the world and inspired a generation of fans...

Direction Antoine Fuqua

Cast B.B. King · Chuck D. · Dr. John · Gregg Allman

Plot Antoine Fuqua's documentary on the blues, shot at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

Direction Joe Dante · Carl Gottlieb · Peter Horton · John Landis

Cast Arsenio Hall · Donald F. Muhich · Monique Gabrielle · Lou Jacobi

Plot A series of short sketches, most of which parody late-night television and the low-budget movies one often finds there. Other skits include a man being attacked by his apartment, a...

Direction John Landis

Cast Dan Aykroyd · John Goodman · Joe Morton · J. Evan Bonifant

Plot Upon his release from prison, now-brotherless Blues Brother Jake Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) puts the band back together with the help of a golden-voiced strip joint bartender (John Goodman) and a...

Direction Jeremy Marre

Cast Elvis Presley · Ernst Jørgensen · D.J. Fontana · Carl Perkins

Plot The story behind Elvis's first album features performances from 1955 and '56, interviews with the King and rare home movies of him at play and work. There are also interviews...

Direction Robert Radler

Cast Kevin Bacon · Jeffrey Baxter · Dickey Betts · Mike Bloomfield

Plot A celebration of the electric guitar, hosted by Kevin Bacon and featuring interviews & performances by B.B. King, Slash, Les Paul, Robby Krieger, John 5, Paul Stanley, Skunk Baxter, Jerry...

Cast Big Bill Broonzy · James Cotton · Willie Dixon · Buddy Guy

Direction Roviros Manthoulis

Cast B.B. King · Brownie McGhee · Sonny Terry · Mance Lipscomb

Plot Documentary about blues musicians.

Direction François Reichenbach

Cast Tim Barnes · John Blakeley · Bonnie Bramlett · Alice Cooper

Plot Documentary of a 154-person bus and truck tour that set out to spread the gospel of flower power to the hinterlands of the U.S.

Direction John Landis · Jeffrey A. Okun

Cast B.B. King · John Landis · Ira Newborn · Eddie Murphy

Plot A short documentary about B.B. King and his time working on the score for the 1985 movie “Into the Night” starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer.