From Tina to Demi, 10 Music Documentaries Burning Up the Charts | Entertainment News

A gentle stream of charming documentaries centering on widespread musicians have not too long ago come by means of the pipelines — and there’s much more on the way in which. From the enduring Tina Turner‘s Tina on HBO, and younger Grammy winner Billie Eilish‘s Apple TV+ hit The World’s a Little Blurry to rocker Bruce Springsteen‘s Letter to You, there’s just about one thing for everyone’s music tastes. 

So let’s get to it. Right here, 10 pedal to the steel music docs you received’t need to miss.

Tina

Together with never-before-seen footage, audiotapes, and interviews with stars like Angela Bassett and Oprah Winfrey, it tells the story of Turner’s struggles with home abuse and her rise to fame — a fame that for a few years she didn’t consider was hers to assert.

Directed by Dan Lindsay and T.J. Martin, it’s from OBB Movies, the identical people behind the record-breaking YouTube Originals’ Justin Bieber: Periods, and it serves as the right accompaniment to her new album, Dancing with the Satan…the Artwork of Beginning Over. 



Dancing With the Satan

Among the many buzziest music docs proper now could be pop star Demi Lovato’s Dancing With the Satan, a four-part documentary at present accessible on YouTube. The undertaking chronicles the actress and “Cool for the Summer time” singer’s previous few years as she opens up about her battle with habit, together with a near-fatal overdose in 2018, in addition to struggles with psychological sickness and consuming issues.



Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry

This providing from award-winning filmmaker R.J. Cutler (Belushi) initially premiered in theaters earlier than touchdown on Apple TV+ in February 2021. The intimate portrait takes viewers into the inventive course of behind the teenage singer-songwriter’s breakthrough debut album When We All Fall Asleep, The place Do We Go?. From Eilish’s humble beginnings to her meteoric rise and cleansing up on the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, it’s a singular take a look at one star who’s simply getting began. 



The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Damaged Coronary heart

Acclaimed filmmaker Frank Marshall takes audiences by means of the triumphs and tribulations of brothers Barry, Maurice and Robin Gibb, who took the world by storm because the Bee Gees. After making a reputation for themselves within the Sixties, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Famers went on to put in writing over a thousand songs and 20 No. 1 hits throughout their prolific profession. It’s enjoyable to relive the pop group’s explosion in recognition due to their contributions to the Saturday Night time Fever soundtrack, which turned one of many best-selling albums of all time. 



Framing Britney Spears

The New York Occasions launch on FX, after which Hulu, is a sobering take a look at the influence that fame can have on somebody’s life. Pop famous person Britney Spears’  brutal courtroom battle along with her dad over the decade-plus court-sanctioned conservatorship is a tough watch. The doc additionally delves into Spears’ struggles as she grew up within the limelight within the Nineties with paparazzi following her each transfer. It has additionally been a conversation-starter with regards to misogyny and double requirements within the leisure business. 



The heartthrob singer-songwriter and former teen Vine star Shawn Mendes is the topic of this Netflix movie directed by Grant Singer, who has collaborated with artists from The Weeknd to Mendes’ personal girlfriend Camila Cabello on music movies. The documentary offers a peek at Mendes’ life each on and off stage, in addition to his battle with melancholy and nervousness. This doc coincided with Mendes’ fourth studio album Surprise. 



If you happen to’re lacking out on attending reside reveals, this live performance documentary on Netflix is an effective approach to reminisce. Named after a lyric from Ariana Grande’s 2018 album Sweetener, it’s a behind-the-scenes take a look at the vocal powerhouse’s World Tour of the identical identify as she takes the stage in London. Grande was additionally the topic of a YouTube Premium net sequence Harmful Girl Diaries a couple of years prior.  



This Netflix-produced doc first bowed on the Sundance Movie Competition earlier than arriving on the streamer in January. The movie dives into Taylor Swift’s public transformation from prolific singer-songwriter to singer-songwriter-activist. It’s a provocative peek behind the scenes of an entertainer studying the true energy of her voice and making a distinction. You may as well try the live performance movie surrounding her shock album Folklore known as Folklore: The Lengthy Pond Studio Periods on Disney+. 



Featured on Apple TV+, this 90-minute documentary directed by long-time collaborator Thom Zimmy follows Bruce Springsteen, aka “The Boss,” whereas making his milestone twentieth studio album, Letter to You. As cameras accompany Springsteen at his house studio in New Jersey for a four-day recording session with the E Road Band, the legendary performer additionally displays on his legacy and artistic course of. 



The Beatles: Get Again

Directed by Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings), this highly-anticipated upcoming documentary covers the making of The Beatles’ closing studio album Let It Be, which got here out in 1970 and initially had the working title Get Again. With footage pulled from director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 documentary of the album, this contemporary look examines the camaraderie that’s typically challenged between the Fab 4. Search for it on August 27 on Disney+.