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Celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation.

Backup singers live in a world that lies just beyond the spotlight. Their voices bring harmony to the biggest bands in popular music, but we've had no idea who these singers are or what lives they lead, until now.

In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.

A musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter new to Manhattan turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.

A talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.

In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen.

The story of the legendary British rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).

Bombay Beach is one of the poorest communities in southern California located on the shores of the Salton Sea...

Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice gets a Bollywood treatment.

A female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.

Contemporary version of the Bizet opera, with new lyrics and an African-American cast.

Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family's ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his great-great-grandfather, a legendary singer.

A profile of Ian Curtis, the enigmatic singer of Joy Division whose personal, professional, and romantic troubles led him to commit suicide at the age of 23.

A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.

An east European girl goes to America with her young son, expecting it to be like a Hollywood film.

In pre-revolutionary Russia, a Jewish peasant with traditional values contends with marrying off three of his daughters with modern romantic ideals while growing anti-Semitic sentiment threatens his village.

Inter-cut with archive material, friends, family and associates of the musician tell the story of his life and how spirituality became such a major part of it.

A chronicle of Terri Hooley's life, a record-store owner instrumental in developing Belfast's punk-rock scene

Good girl Sandy Olsson and greaser Danny Zuko fell in love over the summer. When they unexpectedly discover they're now in the same high school, will they be able to rekindle their romance?

A transexual punk rock girl from East Berlin tours the US with her rock band as she tells her life story and follows the ex-boyfriend/bandmate who stole her songs.

Ringo finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult and the band must try to protect him from it.

Rob, a record store owner and compulsive list maker, recounts his top five breakups, including the one in progress.

The tragic story of world renowned classic cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du Pré-Finzi.

Five friends spend one lost weekend in a mix of music, love and club culture.

As the front man of the Clash from 1977, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Four years after his death, his influence reaches out around the world, more strongly now than ever before.

While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.

Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930's Cornish seaside village.