Equal parts punk and psychedelia, the Flaming Lips emerged from Oklahoma City as one of the most bracing bands of the late 1980s. The Fearless Freaks documents their rise from Butthole Surfers-imitating noisemakers to grand poobahs of orchestral pop masterpieces. Filmmaker Bradley Beesely had the good fortune of living in the same neighborhood as lead Lip Wayne Coyne, who quickly enlisted his buddy to document his band's many concerts and assorted exploits. The early footage is a riot, with tragic hair styles on proud display as the boys attempt to cover up their lack of natural talent with sheer volume. During one show, they even have a friend bring a motorcycle on stage, which is then miked for sound and revved throughout the performance, clearing the club with toxic levels of carbon monoxide. Great punk rock stuff. Interspersed among the live bits are interviews with the band's family and friends, revealing the often tragic circumstances of their childhoods and early career.

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...
Street art, creativity and revolution collide in this beautifully shot film about art’s ability to c...

1962. A crystalline voice becomes a planetary tube. A Belgian nun jostles Elvis and the Beatles on t...

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to ...

Bruce Springsteen, a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggles to reconcile the p...

Probably the most atypical star in the history of popular music, Ian Dury overcame Polio to be one o...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

A multi-awarded 23 minute short film about pansexual punk rockers in a toxic relationship in London’...

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the ...

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...

Two former geeks become 1980s punks, then party and go to concerts while deciding what to do with th...

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On August 8, 1988, the world’s first and largest Satanic rally took place. Ripped from a video featu...

Largely ignored and left to their own devices, a group of unassuming teenagers in late 80s and early...

Best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog was an American pioneer of electroni...

Live in concert at the Mabuhay Gardens in San Francisco + bonus material.

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images e...