Muscle Shoals, Rock & Roll

This documentary film explores ground-breaking recordings of Soul and Rock music in the 1960s and 1970s in a small Alabama town.




Andrew Martin, writing in a blog for The New York Review of Books (February 28, 2014), offers a critical account of this film, as well as some of the music it inspired.

The Butler

If you saw the movie Lincoln, you'll also want to see this film, which makes a brilliant follow-up.

Langston Hughes at the Movies

Black Nativity (2013), is based on Langston Hughes's The Nativity. You'll want to see this film, especially for the music.