The best Adam Yauch’s music movies

Adam Yauch

Adam Yauch

05/08/1964- 04/05/2012
Today we present the best Adam Yauch’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Adam Yauch’s movies.

Beastie Boys Story

Beastie Boys Story
7.7/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 24/04/2020
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Here’s a little story they’re about to tell… Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest

Beats Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest
7.6/10
Having forged a 20-year run as one of the most innovative and influential hip hop bands of all time, the Queens NY collective known as 'A Tribe Called Quest' have kept a generation hungry for more of their groundbreaking music since their much publicized breakup in 1998. Michael Rapaport documents the inner workings and behind the scenes drama that follows the band to this day. He explores what's next for, what many claim, are the pioneers of alternative rap.

Fight for Your Right Revisited

Fight for Your Right Revisited
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 22/04/2011
  • Character: Cop 1
Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and Will Ferrell as the "old" Beastie Boys from the future. The story begins where the video for "Fight for Your Right (1987)" ended. It features music from the band's album Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.

The Work of Director Spike Jonze

The Work of Director Spike Jonze
8.4/10
When you experience The Work of Director Spike Jonze, you enter a world where anything can happen and frequently does. From the innovative director of Being John Malkovich and Adaptation., this superior compilation of music videos, documentaries, interviews, and early rarities offers abundant proof that Jonze is the real deal--a filmmaker ablaze with fresh ideas and fresh ways of filming them. Featuring The Beastie Boys, Bjork, Weezer, The Pharcyde, Fatboy Slim and many others.

Beastie Boys: Video Anthology

Beastie Boys: Video Anthology
8.3/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 21/11/2000
  • Character: Himself / MCA / Nathaniel Hornblower / Nathan Wind / Sir Stewart Wallace
The Beastie Boys are among the most influential groups of the last two decades. As their music has opened hip-hop to a wider audience and changed the parameters of its sound, their ambitious music videos have carried the medium to new levels of artistic expression. This groundbreaking two-disc anthology showcases eighteen videos containing alternate visual angles and multiple audio tracks. Loaded with never-before-seen footage and unreleased music tracks, this special edition also contains a trove of rare still photos and exclusive audio commentary by the band and the video directors.

Tougher Than Leather

Tougher Than Leather
4.8/10
Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they encounter racist bikers, blonde bimbos, and the Beastie Boys!

Beastie Boys: Live in Glasgow

Beastie Boys: Live in Glasgow
8.7/10
Seminal Beastie Boys concert recorded at the Glasgow SECC in 1999.

Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!

Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
7.5/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 31/03/2006
  • Character: MCA
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That! is a 2006 concert film of the Beastie Boys. It was created by giving camcorders to 50 audience members of a sold out concert at Madison Square Garden on October 9, 2004. The audience members were instructed to keep the cameras rolling at all times. The DVD of this concert movie was released on July 24, 2006 in the UK and July 25, 2006 in the US.

Beastie Boys: Sabotage

Beastie Boys: Sabotage
8.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyMusic
  • Release: 10/12/1994
  • Character: Sir Stewart Wallace / Cochese (as Nathan Wind)
Includes the songs: Djembe, Gratitude (Live), Sabotage, The Hurricane Freestyle, Triphamnmer, Skills To Pay The Bills (Live), Time For Living, Sabrosa, Something's Got to Give, Screaming At a Wall (Live), Namaste' (Live), Futterman's Rule, 5-Piece Chicken Dinner, Jimmy James, Conga + Bass, Mullethead, Ricky's Theme, and So What 'Cha Want (Live with Cypress Hill).

Beastie Boys $2 Bill

Beastie Boys $2 Bill
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 09/06/2004
  • Character: Himself (as MCA)
The Beastie Boys perform live at the Huntridge Theater in Las Vegas on June 09, 2004. This concert was later aired on MTV2.

Bad Brains: A Band in DC

Bad Brains: A Band in DC
7.5/10
Bad Brains are one of the most important and influential American bands still working today. They melded punk and reggae into an innovative style that has yet to be copied. Their impact and influence can be heard in groups like Beastie Boys, No Doubt, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction and countless more. Despite the troubles of an eccentric front man they have stayed together for 30 years without ever reaching the level of success so many think they deserve. Using rare archival footage and original comic illustrations the film re-constructs Bad Brains' rich and complicated history.

Still Ill: 25 Years of 'Ill Communication'

Still Ill: 25 Years of 'Ill Communication'
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 30/05/2019
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
The Beastie Boys look back on a period of the group's history that spanned from their groundbreaking 1989 album "Paul's Boutique" to the Lollapalooza tour supporting "Ill Communication."

Beastie Boys: Move on Up

Beastie Boys: Move on Up
This stellar documentary explores the career of the Beastie Boys, from their hardcore punk beginnings in 1979 to their 2011 release, "Hot Sauce Committee Part Two." Rare footage and photographs, along with interviews, shed light on the enduring band.

Sabotage

Sabotage
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 28/01/1994
  • Character: Himself/Sir Stewart Wallace/Nathan Wind as Cochese
Music video for “Sabotage” performed by American hip hop group Beastie Boys.

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