The best Kris Kristofferson’s documentary movies

Kris Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson

22/06/1936 (87 años)
We present our ranking of the best Kris Kristofferson’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Kris Kristofferson.
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Be Here to Love Me

Be Here to Love Me
7.8/10
Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt.

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction

Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 05/09/2012
  • Character: Self
An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his renditions of American folk songs.

Trudell

Trudell
7.4/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 20/01/2005
  • Character: Himself - Musician, Friend
A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances and politics.

My Darling Vivian

My Darling Vivian
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 27/04/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes never-before-seen footage and photographs of Johnny Cash and Rosanne Cash, as well as footage featuring Reese Witherspoon, Joaquin Phoenix, Tim Robbins, Whoopi Goldberg, John C. Reilly and many more.

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 09/03/2003
  • Character: Himself
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.

American Revolutions: The Highwaymen

American Revolutions: The Highwaymen

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession

Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
7.6/10
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-O
7.7/10
Willie Nelson and friends celebrate his sixtieth birthday in a star-studded concert event.

Troubadours

Troubadours
6.9/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 22/01/2011
  • Character: Himself
In the wake of the turbulent 1960s, a new style of song and songwriter came to the fore – a style marked by vulnerable introspection and raw, naked emotion. Backed by little more than a lone acoustic guitar or simple piano, these exciting voices descended upon Los Angeles, now emerging as the center of the American music scene. Their epicenter for self-expression became an old beatnik folk club and a fitting name: The Troubadour. TROUBADOURS traces Carole King, James Taylor and the singer/songwriter scene during the late 1960s and early 1970s. The film also interweaves the intriguing story of the 'world famous' Troubadour club that cemented their musical legacy, the mercurial impresario named Doug Weston who ran it, and the performing careers of some of the best songwriters of their generation – and perhaps any generation: Carole King and James Taylor, as well as Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt, Eagles and many others.

A Tribute To Johnny Cash

A Tribute To Johnny Cash
7.2/10
On Sunday, April 18, 1999, the hottest names in rock and roll united with the biggest stars in country music when TNT presented "A Tribute To Johnny Cash." From humble beginnings as the son of a sharecropper to his rise to fame as a music legend, "The Man In Black" has become one of the most influential performers of the 20th century. Some of Cash's biggest fans, including Bruce Springsteen, Trisha Yearwood, and U2, performed in this star-studded concert saluting Cash's groundbreaking career and the rich legacy of his music. In his fifty year career as singer and song-writer, Cash garnered nine Grammy® Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and the distinction of becoming the first inductee in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame — an honor shared only by Elvis Presley.

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.1/10
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist whose genius and inner demons changed the Western genre forever.

Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade Trinity'

Nightstalkers, Daywalkers, and Familiars: Inside the World of 'Blade Trinity'
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 13/07/2005
  • Character: Self
A short documentary on the making of Blade Trinity.

The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End

The Highwaymen: Friends Till the End
7.4/10
An oral history of the Mount Rushmore of Country Music: Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson. Interviews with the men who make the music and the story of their friendships.

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970

Leonard Cohen: Live at the Isle of Wight 1970
8.3/10
Forty summers ago on a windswept island just off England's southern coastline, a young Canadian folksinger-songwriter-poet-novelist named Leonard Cohen delivered the performance of a lifetime.

OK Buckaroos

OK Buckaroos
This is the story of a troubadour's journey in the last years of the twentieth century. Jerry Jeff Walker's music has led him from the nation's biggest arenas to hundred-year old honky-tonks; from upstate New York to the beaches of Key West and the hustling sidewalks of New Orleans to the solace of the Texas Hill Country - and for beyond. He's been a cog in the wheel of the recording industry's star-making machinery and an involuntary pioneer on the frontier of artistic independence. He wrote one of the biggest mainstream hits of all time and still managed to help jump start a maverick musical movement.

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron

Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron
7.5/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 29/06/1993
  • Character: Himself
This straight-talking program seeks to understand the enigmatic and controversial Sam Peckinpah, whose violent films such as The Wild Bunch and Straw Dogs had a telling effect on the cinema of the 1970s and 80s. Those who knew and worked with him, including actor James Coburn, actress Ali MacGraw, his associate Katherine Haber, his cousin Bob Peckinpah, and several screenwriters and producers, examine his life in an attempt to separate the man from the persona. Clips from key films reinforce this detailed discussion of Peckinpah's art and a fixation on violence that still permeates Hollywood today.

Johnny Cash: American Rebel

Johnny Cash: American Rebel
7.7/10
Johnny Cash: American Rebel is built around 12 essential Johnny Cash tracks spanning four decades that each deliver the passion, musicality and messages against war, injustice, racism and prejudice, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Jackson,” “San Quentin,” “Man in Black,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Ring of Fire” and “Hurt.” Each song illustrates a chapter in his life, as well the story of an ever-changing America from the 1950s to modern day, as told through interviews, archival concert footage, photographs and personal artifacts from the Cash family.

The Winding Stream

The Winding Stream
7.7/10
The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
7.8/10
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott. She explores who he is and how he got there, working back and forth between archival and contemporary footage. Born in 1932 in Brooklyn, busking through the South and West in the early 50s, a year with Woody Guthrie, six years flatpicking in Europe, a triumphant return to Greenwich Village in the early 60s, mentoring Bob Dylan, then life on the road, from gig to gig, singing and telling stories. A Grammy and the National Medal of Arts await Jack near the end of a long trail. What will Aiyana find for herself?

Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson

Somewhere Near Salinas: A Conversation with Kris Kristofferson
6.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 11/12/2007
  • Character: Himself
This interview features director Monte Hellman and singer-songwriter-actor Kris Kristofferson. It was filmed in Los Angeles in the summer of 2007.

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