Movies Similar to The Magic of Spirituals

24 Hour Party People(2002)

Manchester, 1976. Tony Wilson is an ambitious but frustrated local TV news reporter looking for a way to make his mark. After witnessing a life-changing concert by a band known as the Sex Pistols, he persuades his station to televise one of their performances, and soon Manchester's punk groups are clamoring for him to manage them. Riding the wave of a musical revolution, Wilson and his friends create the legendary Factory Records label and The Hacienda club.

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Sheena Ringo: Gekokujyo Xstasy(2000)

"Gekokujyo Xstasy" is a video album by Japanese singer and songwriter Ringo Sheena, released on 7 December 2000 by Toshiba EMI. It contains a live recording of Sheena during her first tour of the same name. "Gekokujyo Xstasy" was the first nationwide tour for Shiina performed from April 17, 2000 to June 7. The live video takes up two performances at NHK Hall and at Fukuoka Sunpalace mainly from this tour. The stage design of the tour makes a hospital a motif like her single "Honnou." The stage setting imitated an operating room, and an ECG Monitor or an anatomical model of the human body, etc. were arranged on the stage, and the synthesizer and the drum set were laid on operating tables. Shiina wears a white dress looks like gauze bandages with which she blinds her body. Four members of the tour band also wear the white coat.

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Unkaputtbar(2025)

Metzer 58 play Punk. They were founded in a meet-up at Lebenshilfe Münster, an NGO that provides housing and other services to people with disabilities. The band consists of disabled people and able-bodied people. That doesn't really affect the topic of their songs or the amount of chaos and excess at their gigs, though. In this documentary, director Tobias Stiegler follows the band on tour and paints an intriguing portrait of Metzer 58

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The Promise of Music(2008)

The documentary accompanied the work of the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

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Saudade: The Lisbon I Never Knew

A love letter from an American soul to the city of Lisbon.

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Rocío Dúrcal: I Like You So Much - All The Greatest Hits(2005)

A DVD that completes the anthology with its main video clips and performances on Spanish television.

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The Road to Ruane(2024)

Billy Ruane, storied impresario of the 90s Boston indie music scene. Billy promoted shows and inspired cult-like followings of bands by the likes of The Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr., Pixies, Superchunk, Buffalo Tom, Elliott Smith, Pavement, and Sonic Youth. His gracious treatment of artists set new standards in music. But underneath Billy’s exuberant cartoon-like demeanor and Harvard education, was the pain of a man with deep trauma, who struggled with bipolar disorder and substance abuse, and was confounded by the weight of an endless supply of money.

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La Portée des notes(2020)

The documentary follows the orchestra classes of Fougères and Garges-Lès-Gonesse throughout the 2019-2020 school year in their daily life, during training, rehearsals and concerts, particularly at Unesco.

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Milford Graves Full Mantis(2018)

Weaving blistering performance footage from Europe, Japan, and the U.S. with a sublimely restrained, intimate glimpse into a world-renowned jazz percussionist’s singular voice and complex cosmology.

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Macross 7: The Galaxy Is Calling Me!(1995)

Basara, on one of his frequent trips across the galaxy to spread the message of his music, folds in on an icy planet. The natives are hostile, and take him prisoner until he begins to sing for them and a little boy named Pedro recognizes his voice. They release Basara, and almost as soon as they don, a strange wailing voice comes from the nearby mountains. Basara and Pedro head out in Basara's valkyrie to investigate the noise. Little do they know, an ambush is waiting for them.

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In the Echo of a Toilet(2025)

A documentary tale about the sound recorded in the spring of 1973 in Tomaž Pengov's apartment at 1 Prešernova, Ljubljana by the sound engineer Aco Razbornik. These recordings became "Odpotovanja", the mysterious and first independent LP album in the former Yugoslavia. The exciting story is revealed by exclusive videos, found photographs, objects, and of course the friends who took the 23-year-old Pengov on an exciting journey of planning, recording, designing and promoting the album, which immediately after its release became a cult and sought-after diamond of the pop culture underground scene of the time. But the story does not end with the album's release. The record is still turning.

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The Admiral: Pub, Drums and Food(2018)

A documentary short catching up with John Halsey a.k.a. Barry Wom of The Rutles

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The Last Hot Lick(2017)

The story of Jack Willits (portrayed by Jamie Leopold), former bass player for Dan Hicks and Hot Licks, a 69-year-old musician on a never-ending tour, desperate to recapture the fame of his youth. When he meets a mysterious woman, Jack believes her beautiful voice is the key to his success and doesn't see that she might be too good to be true.

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Russification in pop style(2024)

A documentary about how Russia has been using popular culture as a weapon against Ukraine for decades. Together with industry participants, the film's narrator, musician Albert Tsukrenko, explores the financial, political and psychological reasons for the vulnerability of Ukrainian artists and reflects on how to break this vicious circle. Unfortunately, our own Ukrainian talents are becoming the ammunition in this weapon. Several generations of original Ukrainian musicians at different times in the 1970s and 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, and 2010s switched from Ukrainian to Russian in their work. Whether willingly or unwittingly, they became tools of Russian show business, which has always sought to blur the cultural border between Russia and Ukraine and worked to promote the imperial myth of "one nation".

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The Queers Are Here(2007)

Formed in 1981, The Queers have played everywhere with everyone. And now, they are here. Live performances, interviews, and music videos spanning from 1993 to 2005 are all included.

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The Spark(2024)

Leo, Francisca and Lara have just finished high school. Faced with an uncertain future, they spend their last summer together cycling through the streets of Córdoba while searching for a lost cassette of their favorite rock band.

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DIY: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Punk(2025)

D.I.Y. is an extrospective dissection of Pop-Punk; from the SoCal garages of the 80’s to the enduring impact the genre has had on music, fashion, and culture.

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Destiny's Child :TMF Mini Concert - Live In New York(2001)

Destiny's Child performs at the TMF Awards April 7th 2001 in New York City. Destiny's Child was an American girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. The group began their musical career as Girl's Tyme, formed in 1990 in Houston, Texas. After years of limited success, the quartet comprising Knowles, Rowland, LaTavia Roberson, and LeToya Luckett were signed in 1997 to Columbia Records as Destiny's Child.

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The Girl Can't Help It(1956)

A down-and-out gangster hires a down-on-his-luck agent to make his girlfriend a recording star within six weeks.

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Our Season(2024)

ZBTV releases a music drama for Our Season by ZEROBASEONE.

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