The best Kurt Cobain’s music movies

Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain

20/02/1967- 05/04/1994
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kurt Cobain’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kurt Cobain.
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Soaked in Bleach

Soaked in Bleach
7.3/10
Twenty years ago, Kurt Cobain was found dead of an apparent gunshot wound to the head. The world was told it was a suicide, but evidence would lead many people to believe it might be otherwise. The film investigates the possibilities that exist that Kurt Cobain's death might not have been a suicide, that the Seattle Police Department rushed their verdict, and the global media perpetuated lies and misinformation fed to them by Courtney Love that created the belief in many that Cobain killed himself—but when revealed to be lies—lead many to now question what happened.

Cobain: Montage of Heck

Cobain: Montage of Heck
7.5/10
Hailed as one of the most innovative and intimate documentaries of all time, experience Kurt Cobain like never before in the only ever fully authorized portrait of the famed music icon. Academy Award nominated filmmaker Brett Morgen expertly blends Cobain's personal archive of art, music, never seen before movies, animation and revelatory interviews from his family and closest friends.

Kurt & Courtney

Kurt & Courtney
6.1/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryMusic
  • Release: 27/02/1998
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
After rocker Kurt Cobain's death, ruled a suicide, a film crew arrives in Seattle to make a documentary. Director Nick Broomfield talks to lots of people. Portraits emerge: a shy, slight Kurt, weary of touring, embarrassed by fame, hooked on heroin; an out-going Courtney, dramatic, controlling, moving from groupie to star.

Hype!

Hype!
7.6/10
This documentary examines the Seattle scene as it became the focus of a merging of punk rock, heavy metal, and innovation. Building from the grass roots, self-promoted and self-recorded until break-out success of bands like Nirvana brought the record industry to the Pacific Northwest, a phenomenon was born.

Nirvana: Unplugged In New York

Nirvana: Unplugged In New York
9.4/10
A live album by American rock band Nirvana, the album features an acoustic performance recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City on 18 November 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged.

Kurt Cobain: About a Son

Kurt Cobain: About a Son
7.2/10
An intimate and moving meditation on the late musician and artist Kurt Cobain, based on more than 25 hours of previously unheard audiotaped interviews conducted with Cobain by noted music journalist Michael Azerrad for his book "Come As You Are: The Story of Nirvana." In the film, Kurt Cobain recounts his own life - from his childhood and adolescence to his days of musical discovery and later dealings with explosive fame - and offers often piercing insights into his life, music, and times. The conversations heard in the film have never before been made public and they reveal a highly personal portrait of an artist much discussed but not particularly well understood. Written by AJ Schnack

Nirvana : Live at the Paramount

Nirvana : Live at the Paramount
8.6/10
Recorded in Seattle, WA on Halloween Night, 1991, Live at the Paramount is the only known Nirvana live show recorded on 16mm film. Now released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the release of Nirvana's watershed album.

1991: The Year Punk Broke

1991: The Year Punk Broke
7.3/10
David Markey's documentary of life on the road with Sonic Youth and Nirvana during their tour of Europe in late 1991. Also featuring live performances by Dinosaur Jr, Babes in Toyland, The Ramones and Gumball.

Nirvana: Live At Reading

Nirvana: Live At Reading
9/10
Live At Reading is a live CD/DVD by the American grunge band Nirvana released on 2 November 2009, chronicling its 1992 performance at the Reading Festival in Reading, England. Bootlegged for years following the performance, the new issues present the performance for the first time mastered and color corrected.

Nirvana: Live and Loud

Nirvana: Live and Loud
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter 2. Drain You 3. Breed 4. Serve The Servants 5. Rape Me 6. Sliver 7. Pennyroyal Tea 8. Scentless Apprentice 9. All Apologies 10. Heart-Shaped Box 11. Blew 12. The Man Who Sold The World 13. School 14. Come As You Are 15. Lithium 16. About A Girl 17. Endless, Nameless Live and Loud is a live video released by American grunge band Nirvana in September 2013. It was released as part of the 20th anniversary of the band's third and final studio album, In Utero. It showcases the entirety of the band's December 1993 live performance at Pier 48, Seattle which was recorded by MTV for "Live and Loud".

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!

Nirvana: Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!
8.4/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 01/01/1994
  • Character: Himself (also as Kurdt Kobain)
Originally conceived by Kurt Cobain, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! is a video document of Nirvana’s rise from a scruffy trio from the Pacific Northwest into one of the most iconic and important bands in the history of rock music. Combining live material from their ’91-’92 Nevermind tour, Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! has long been the “holy grail” for Nirvana fans. Digitally remastered live performances of songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit", "Lithium", "Breed", "Drain You" and "Aneurysm" are mixed into loads of interview footage from across the world.

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn

The Work of Director Anton Corbijn
7.6/10
Legendary photographer and director Anton Corbijn is responsible for many of the most indelible and important images of the past two and a half decades. His recently released book U2 & I is a photographic retrospective of his 25 year collaboration with U2. Later this year, Anton will direct his first feature film, Control, based on the life of the late Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis.

Welcome to My Castle!

Welcome to My Castle!
Over 5 hours of full-length interviews with Nirvana, Tommy Chong, Sonic Youth, Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Ron Jeremy, and many more. Includes videos of Nardwuar's band, The Evaporators, along with all sorts of bonus material!

Nirvana: With the Lights Out

Nirvana: With the Lights Out
8.6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 23/11/2004
Highlighted on the With The Lights Out DVD is a previously unreleased video of nine songs performed in 1988 at bassist Krist Novoselic's mother's house in Aberdeen, Washington; the rare "In Bloom" Sub Pop music video, and 10 never-before-seen live performances. Noteworthy among them are debut renditions of "Pennyroyal Tea", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" both from early 1991. Also premiering is an unlikely performance of Jacques Brel and Rod McKuen's "Seasons In The Sun" shot at a Rio de Janeiro studio.

Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal

Nirvana: Unplugged in New York - Rehearsal
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 18/11/1993
  • Character: Lead Vocals, Guitars
Unplugged in New York is a live album by American rock band Nirvana, released on 1 November 1994. The album features an acoustic performance recorded at Sony Music Studios in New York City on 18 November 1993, for the television series MTV Unplugged. In a break with MTV Unplugged convention, Nirvana played mainly lesser-known material and covers of songs.

25 Years of Punk

25 Years of Punk
7.5/10
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's. A collaboration between VH1 and Spin magazine.

Nirvana Live At The Paradiso

Nirvana Live At The Paradiso
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 25/11/1991
  • Character: himself
Nirvana Recorded Live at the Paradiso in Amsterdam, on November 25th 1991. Drain You, Aneurysm, School, Floyd the Barber, Smells Like Teen Spirit, About a Girl, Polly, Lithium, Sliver, Breed, Come as You Are, Been a Son, Negative Creep, On a Plain, Blew, Love Buzz, Territorial Pissings

Sub Pop Video Network Program 1

Sub Pop Video Network Program 1
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 01/01/1991
  • Character: Performer
A compilation of all the Sub Pop videos from the grunge era. Tracks include Nirvana's 'In Bloom' and Mark Lanegan's 'Ugly Sunday'.

When Nirvana Came To Britain

When Nirvana Came To Britain
A look at the special relationship between Nirvana and the UK on the 30th anniversary of their seminal album Nevermind, including the role Britain played in paving the way for their success.

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