Research Guides: IDS 101: The Art of Musical Invective: Films

Streaming Videos

What Is Classic Rock?
How do you define classic rock? Is it a genre, a radio format, or music from a specific period of time? Filmmaker & lifelong rocker Daniel Sarkissian travels the world, interviewing iconic artists in search of an answer.
Harry Styles: Live in Manchester
Harry Styles performs new tracks and classic covers, accompanied by his band. Alongside the performances, Harry goes on a road trip around Manchester, and also talks about his extraordinary music career, his life to date.
David Crosby: Remember My Name
A revealing and deeply personal documentary exploring the life and creative renaissance of music icon David Crosby.
Revenge of the Mekons
Revenge of the Mekons charts the unlikely career of the genre-defying collective notorious for being—as rock critic Greil Marcus notes—“the band that took punk ideology most seriously.” Born out of the 1977 British punk scene, the Mekons progressed from a group of socialist art students with no musical skills to the prolific, raucous progeny of Hank Williams.

DVD Players on Campus

AV Room 1 (Mark O. Hatfield Library Second Floor)

Check out keys at the Circulation Desk.

Digital Learning Studio (Ford 101)

Students are welcome to contact the Digital Learning Studio or drop by to reserve the studio for group viewings of DVDs and we will be happy to assist them, especially in the evening or when there are no classes utilizing the space. For individual DVD watching, the studio has 7 iMACS, with external DVD drives available that can be used as DVD watching stations, students can contact us and we can reserve an iMAC for them. The studio is located in Ford 101, or we can be reached at digital-learning-studio@willamette.edu or 503-375-5492

Documentary Films

Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) ML38.B48 W66 2009

For three days in the summer of 1969, a rock concert was held on an upstate New York farm, and 400,000 people attended...
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) ML421.D48 S4 2007

Follow the Dixie chicks, the top selling female band of all-time, through the now infamous anti-Bush comment made by the groups lead singer Natalie Maines in 2003...

Rock Music in Feature Films

This Is Spinal Tap: A Rockumentary
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.C55 T457 2000

The rock group Spinal Tap still clings to some glint of their lost glory as they embark on an accident-plagued tour across America.
Velvet Goldmine
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.D4 V45 1998

It's been 10 years since glam-rock superstar Brian Slade faked his own death and vanished from the spotlight...
Almost Famous
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.D7 A622 2001

It's the opportunity of a lifetime when teenage reporter William Miller lands an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine.
The Mephisto Waltz
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.H6 H67 2007

When a failed musician-turned-journalist interviews a reclusive aging pianist, he doesn't realize he's being interviewed himself - to be the vessel for the satanist's dying soul.
The Beatles: Help!
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.9.M86 H35 2007

the Beatles are chased from London to the Austrian Alps to the Bahamas by religious cult members, a mad scientists and the London police.

Foreign Language Films

Hot Summer
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.G4 H367 1999

Set on the Baltic Sea, is the lovin' and fightin' of 10 teenage boys and 11 teenage girls on vacation.
Marooned in Iraq
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.K8 A82 2003

During the Iran-Iraq war, an Iranian-Kurd musician and his sons go to find the old man's former wife, a singer, who fled Iran when women were forbidden to perform publicly.
Orfeu
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.P65 O74 2002

In Carioca Hill, a dangerous slum in Rio de Janiro, Orfeu, a charismatic and beloved samba musician, leads his school each year in the Carnaval parade, refusing to abandon the slums where he was raised. When Orfeu falls in love with Euridice...
Pepi, Luci, Bom
Call Number: Hatfield Library AV Video (DVD) PN1995.91.S6 P324 2006

The film is an outrageous comedy which follows docile housewife Luci , her trendy, marijuana smoking neighbour Pepi and rock star Bom who are close friends.

IDS 101: The Art of Musical Invective: Films

Streaming Videos

DVD Players on Campus

Documentary Films

Rock Music in Feature Films

Foreign Language Films

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