Robert Mugge

Documentary about the many well-known New Orleans musicians who were forced to leave the city by Hurricane Katrina, where they wound up, how (and ...

A documentary featuring live performance footage and interviews with eight contemporary female blues’ artists including Mavis Staples, ...

Tenor saxophone master Sonny Rollins has long been hailed as one of the most important artists in jazz history, and still, today, he is viewed as ...

Attempting to name a new “king of zydeco” in the mid 1990s, The Kingdom of Zydeco looks at the Black Creole music scene of Southwest ...

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, ...

In 1971, Bruce Iglauer founded Alligator Records, the most successful modern blues label. In early 1992, Iglauer staged the Alligator Records ...

A film about the art of the hula explores Hawaiian dance traditions going back to 500AD when Polynesians first arrived in the islands. Those ...

An 85-minute film on Hawaiian music. Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored.

This is the 1983 edition of Jamaica’s annual Reggae Sunsplash in Montego Bay, a week-long showcase for some of the greatest names in reggae, ska, ...

Robert Mugge’s 1986 film provides a full-blooded portrait of the Latino singer, actor, bandleader, and composer. Blades’ Panama ...

The story of R&B singer Al Green, who gave up a successful singing career to become a gospel minister.

Gil Scott-Heron, one of rap’s earliest (and unfortunately unknown) pioneers, gets his full due in Black Wax, the 1982 documentary recently ...

Documentary about Gil Scott-Heron.

Robert Mugge filmed jazz great Sun Ra on location in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. between 1978 and 1980. The resulting 60-minute ...