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I Was There When House Took Over the World · [Full Documentary]

2019-05-06T00:53:49.698Z

Watch a brand new documentary about the history of house music. Featuring Nile Rodgers, Marshall Jefferson, Honey Dijon, and many more.

Nile Rodgers and more on how Disco's death gave birth to the most iconic sound in dance. How social unrest and Chicago's underground gay clubs led to a global dance movement. How young black entrepreneurs created a music empire that eventually topped UK charts.

Exit Through the Gift Shop [Full Documentary]

2015-12-28T03:11:32.682Z

The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner. The film contains footage of Banksy, Shephard Fairey, Invader and many of the world's most infamous graffiti artists at work.

Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker [BBC Full Documentary]

2015-10-07T05:01:23.938Z

Rodgers is best-known as half of disco-innovators Chic and as an über-producer who helped define the sound of the 70s and 80s. Recently, Rodgers has become a collaborator with (and unofficial spokesman for) Daft Punk, and even fronts an electronic music lobbying group.

Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker spans Rodgers’ life and career, and features appearances from fellow Chic members (singers Norma Jean, Alfa Anderson and Fonzi Thornton and keyboard player Rob Sabino), recording engineers Bob Clearmountain and Robert Drake, and a laundry list of artists he’s worked with: Sister Sledge’s Kathy Sledge; Bryan Ferry; Steve Winwood; Johnny Marr; La Roux’s Elly Jackson; Valerie Simpson; Debbie Harry and Chris Stein from Blondie and Duran Duran’s John Taylor.

N.W.A: The World's Most Dangerous Group [VH1 Documentary]

2015-08-19T23:59:51.454Z

"N.W.A The World's Most Dangerous Group" [VH1 Documentary]

Let the Fire Burn [Full Documentary]

2015-05-05T15:39:56.849Z

Let the Fire Burn is composed entirely with archival footage yet unfurls with the tension of a thriller. Jason Osder’s documentary recounts the steps that led to a horrific tragedy on May 13, 1985, when a longtime feud between the city of Philadelphia and the controversial radical urban group MOVE came to a deadly climax.

Formed in 1972 as a “back to nature” commune by the charismatic leader John Africa, MOVE members took the same surname in honor of their ancestral homeland, wore their hair in dreadlocks, shunned technology, and promoted a diet of raw food. Grappling for a way to describe the group, reporters sometimes referred to MOVE as a “cult” and later as “terrorists.”

Living together in a home in West Philadelphia, MOVE’s unorthodox lifestyle lead to conflicts with neighbors and clashes with the police. In 1978, this resulted in deadly violence when officer James Ramp was killed in a shootout between police and MOVE members. Nine MOVE members were later convicted for this murder, although they maintained that Ramp was really killed by friendly fire. Eventually the MOVE members set up in a new home in the Cobbs Creek area of West Philadelphia, where tensions between neighbors, the city, and MOVE would reach a full boil. In 1985, after many complaints about broadcasts via loudspeaker as well as worries over health hazards, the city took action to evict the group from their row house, using force.

After a daylong battle in which the police used teargas, firehoses, and ultimately 10,000 rounds of ammunition in an attempt to remove MOVE members from their fortified home, authorities order military-grade explosives to be dropped on the house from a helicopter. News cameras captured the conflagration that quickly escalated — and resulted in the tragic deaths of eleven people (including five children) and the destruction of 61 homes. It was only later discovered that authorities decided to “let the fire burn.” Using only archival news coverage and interviews for a past in present tense approach, first-time filmmaker Osder has brought to life one of the most tumultuous and largely forgotten clashes between government and citizens in modern American history.