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
Josh: Independence Through Unity
Released on: 2013-08-09
Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Fatima, a teacher living her elite life in Karachi, shattered, when her nanny Nusrat, inexplicably d...
Freddie Mercury: A Kind of Magic
Released on: 2006-09-12
Documentary, Music
Last week Freddie Mercury would have celebrated his 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, celebrity ...
Green Day: The Early Years
Released on: 2017-03-23
Music, Documentary
"Green Day: The Early Years" chronicles the rise of the world's most influential punk band, from the...
The Hitler Gang
Released on: 1944-04-26
Drama, War, History
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
Outside of Paradise
Released on: 1938-02-08
Comedy, Music, Romance
Daniel Francis O'Toole, singing maestro in a New York restaurant, finds himself the unexpected heir ...
The Young Swingers
Released on: 1963-09-01
Music
Singing teenagers rally to keep open their local nightclub.
Two Hours of Quality TV Program
Released on: 1995-01-01
Comedy, Music
Made for New Year's Eve program, "Two Hours of Quality Program" exceeded all expectations becoming m...
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...
On Promised Land
Released on: 1994-04-17
Drama, TV Movie
In the 1950s, the Ween family live and work on land that was promised to their family. The landowner...
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 ...
Catch Me If You Can
Released on: 2002-12-16
Drama, Crime
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...
M*A*S*H
Released on: 1970-02-18
Comedy, Drama, War
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of t...
Contact
Released on: 1997-07-11
Drama, Science Fiction, Mystery
A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the ...
Annie Hall
Released on: 1977-04-19
Comedy, Drama, Romance
New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.