The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
• May 18th, 1978 • 1h 54min
Drama, Music
Overview
A chronicle of the rise and brief career of rock 'n' roll star Buddy Holly, who aspires to play music the way he wants it to sound. Holly and his band, the Crickets, are first invited to record in Nashville, where they encounter creative differences with the producing staff. Later they play a major booking at the Apollo Theater, scheduled there under the mistaken assumption that they're a black band. Holly's career eventually goes solo -- until the tragic day the music dies.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Gandhi
Released on: 1982-12-01
Drama, History
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Almost Famous
Released on: 2000-09-15
Drama, Music
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
Good Morning, Vietnam
Released on: 1987-12-23
Comedy, Drama, War
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular a...
American Graffiti
Released on: 1973-08-11
Comedy, Drama
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before...
Anton Tchekhov 1890
Released on: 2015-03-18
Drama
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...
The Right Stuff
Released on: 1983-10-20
Drama, History, Adventure
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...
Babe
Released on: 1995-07-18
Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Family
Babe is a little pig who doesn't quite know his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, lik...
Mahanati
Released on: 2018-05-09
Drama
Mahanati depicts the life and career of one of Telugu cinema's greatest and most iconic starlets, th...
Elvis by the Presleys
Released on: 2005-05-13
Documentary, Music
Priscilla Presley, her daughter, their family and their friends open their hearts in the backdrop of...
Basquiat
Released on: 1996-08-09
Drama, History
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
The Bodyguard
Released on: 1992-11-25
Action, Drama, Romance
A former Secret Service agent grudgingly takes an assignment to protect a pop idol who's threatened ...
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Released on: 1989-10-13
Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
The lives of two struggling musicians, who happen to be brothers, inevitably change when they team u...
Moulin Rouge
Released on: 1952-12-23
Drama
In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits...
Farinelli
Released on: 1994-12-01
History, Drama, Music
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A Season of Giants
Released on: 1990-11-04
Drama, History
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leon...
Käthe Kollwitz – Pictures of a Life
Released on: 1987-04-23
History, Drama
Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Pe...
Mulholland Falls
Released on: 1996-04-26
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
A Complete Unknown
Released on: 2024-12-25
Drama, Music
New York, early 1960s. Against the backdrop of a vibrant music scene and tumultuous cultural upheava...