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.

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.

Second half of the 1970s. A few teenagers from the town of Ustrzyki Dolne, led by a charismatic and ...

County Durham, England, 1984. The miners' strike has started and the police have started coming up f...

Live concert of the German band Unheilig, recorded on March 4th 2004 in Nuremberg, Germany.

A zebu disappears while children are drawing it. They find it again in the woods. The notes of a har...

The Spectacular Spinning Songbook made its first appearance in 1986 in Los Angeles during the "Coste...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year th...

Wax and wane until there is naught but boring pain.

England thrash Australia in the fifth Test at the Oval - but still lose the Ashes.

The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s...

A walk through the golden age of Spanish exploitation cinema, from the sixties to the eighties; a lo...
This documentary is featured on the DVD for Captain Blood (1935), released in 2005.

In 1928, as the talkies threw the film industry and film language into turmoil, Chaplin decided that...

A documentary incorporating footage of Montgomery Clift’s most memorable films; interviews with fami...

Fireworks, illuminations and traditional dance all feature in a stunningly opulent royal wedding at ...

The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evas...

On October 12th, 1978, New York Police discovered the lifeless body of a young woman, slumped under ...

A Sydney teen tries to make it as a rock singer, with help from her odd 14-year-old cousin.

Torremolinos, province of Málaga, Spain, autumn 1981. In the basement of a pub frequented by foreign...