Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002)
• September 11th, 2002 • 1h 56min
Documentary, Music
Overview
In 1959, Berry Gordy Jr. gathered the best musicians from Detroit's thriving jazz and blues scene to begin cutting songs for his new record company. Over a fourteen year period they were the heartbeat on every hit from Motown's Detroit era. By the end of their phenomenal run, this unheralded group of musicians had played on more number ones hits than the Beach Boys, the Rolling Stones, Elvis and the Beatles combined - which makes them the greatest hit machine in the history of popular music. They called themselves the Funk Brothers. Forty-one years after they played their first note on a Motown record and three decades since they were all together, the Funk Brothers reunited back in Detroit to play their music and tell their unforgettable story, with the help of archival footage, still photos, narration, interviews, re-creation scenes, 20 Motown master tracks, and twelve new live performances of Motown classics with the Brothers backing up contemporary performers.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Sting: The Brand New Day Tour: Live From The Universal Amphitheatre
Released on: 1999-09-08
Music
Concert video from Sting's Brand New Day Tour. 1. A Thousand Years 2. If You Love Somebody (Set Them...
Anna Pina Teresa
Released on: 2015-04-08
Documentary
Anna, Pina, Teresa reinterprets the pivotal scene in Rossellini’s “Roma Città Aperta” where Anna Mag...
Camilo sinfónico: vivir así
Released on: 2019-05-05
Documentary, Music, TV Movie
An account of the successful life and work of Spanish singer and actor Camilo Sesto (1946-2019), the...
TaMtAm - Music of the time of troubles
Released on: 2017-06-24
Documentary, Music
Documentary film about the first St. Petersburg music club TaMtAm. It existed since 1991 upon 1996 ...
A Hard Day's Night
Released on: 1964-07-07
Comedy, Music
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element...
Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes
Released on: 2014-04-05
Documentary
Follow Bruce Springsteen during the making of his 18th studio album, 'High Hopes,' in this special. ...
Cascade
Released on: 2022-06-20
Music, Romance, Drama
After a close friends suicide; Will, a Punk and Post-Punk musician living in the US is struggling wi...
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Released on: 2006-09-15
Documentary
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed f...
The Order of Myths
Released on: 2008-07-25
Documentary
In 2007 Mobile, Alabama, Mardi Gras is celebrated... and complicated. Following a cast of characters...
ABBA: The Movie
Released on: 1977-12-15
Comedy, Drama, Music, Documentary
A radio DJ in pursuit of an exclusive interview follows ABBA during their mega-successful tour of Au...
Out of Sight
Released on: 1995-06-20
Documentary
America may be ready for a blind woman who has a career or is raising a family, but is it ready for ...
No End in Sight
Released on: 2007-07-27
Documentary
Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the ...
THE HISTORY OF ROCK MUSIC. What is Rock Music? (Documentary)
Released on: 2022-12-28
Documentary
We love rock ’n’ roll: well, it’s hard not to, with its sexy, totally exhilarating back story, and t...
Super Duper Alice Cooper
Released on: 2014-04-17
Documentary, Music
Emerging from the Detroit music scene of the 1970s in a flurry of long hair and sequins, Alice Coope...
Army Of Lovers Hurrah Hurrah Apocalypse
Released on: 2005-11-02
Music
What Army Of Lovers claimed to lack in traditional musical talent, they easily made up for in hi-tec...
La Vie en Rose
Released on: 2007-02-14
Music, Drama
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
Shine a Light
Released on: 2008-04-04
Documentary, Music
Martin Scorsese and the Rolling Stones unite in "Shine A Light," a look at The Rolling Stones." Scor...