"Beats"
Beats of the Heart: Chase the Devil: Religious Music of the Appalachians
Documentary - From Baptist to bluegrass, this PBS documentary examines the unique culture of religious music in the Appalachian Mountains. - Bobby Akers, Dee Hicks, Delta Hicks
Beats of the Heart: The Spirit of the Samba: Black Music of Brazil
Documentary - Though many outside of Brazil know samba and bossa nova through the works of crossover artists such as Antonio Carlos Jobim, the music has deep roots in Brazilian culture and history. THE SPIRIT OF SAMBA makes a complete survey of one of Brazil's national treasures. - Chico Barque, Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento
The DJ/Producer Series: Making Beats
Learn the essentials of electronic music production-Includes instruction on beat making using drum machines, samplers, keyboards, sample CDs, and more. Describes a simple 5-part method for making beats. Also introduces you to todayâs hottest software tools. Approximately 90 minutes.
Concentric Beats
Concentric Beats is a documentary film about the US drum'n'bass music experience, focusing mainly on three cities: Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Besides featuring club and rave footage, the narrative of the film is carried through by over 70 interviews with some of the main protagonists of the drum'n'bass scene in the US as well as abroa..
Beatstriker
The "Berlin Beginners" are Anna, Robert and Niko. They are three ambitious unknown Berlin musicians driven by their dream to make it in the hard knock world of pop. Their different life phases offer a personal comical and tragical insight into life's reality of "normal" musicians in Germany, removed from glamour and groupies. But the absolute will ..
Brothers in Beats
A satirical look into the dynamics of a high school drumline. As tensions rise due to an out-of-control captain, past drama gets brought up in the form of a trouble-making tenor. This brings everyone to their boiling point and a choice must be made - either let the line fall, or become brothers in beats.
Beats of the Heart: Shotguns and Accordions: Music of the Marijuana Regions of Colombia
This documentary journeys to the violent marijuana-producing regions of northern Colombia to examine the drug trade's influence on the community and its culture, including a unique style of indigenous music known as vallenato.
Ant Beats
A slow 42-minute video featuring ants working in harmony to relaxing ambient music.
The Hard Beats of Zany
One of Holland's Hardstyle legends at play on the Hard mainstage at DanceValley 2014. His brutal, energetic music is unleashed at the crowd who simply can't resist.
Pharrell Williams: No Beats Unknown
Biography of hip-hop superstar Pharrell Williams. Footage and interviews show every sides of his life and career, from his first collaboration with fellow high schooler Chad Hugo to his 2004 Grammy Awards and beyond. The program examines the impact early hip hop had on Pharrell, how it inspired the creation of the Neptunes with Hugo and the success..
Beats of the Heart: Rhythm of Resistance
Rhythm of Resistance examines the vital role of music in the lives of black South Africans under the oppressive regime of apartheid.
Beats of the Heart: Salsa
'Salsa' captures a unique moment in time for this most exuberant and socially dynamic music.
Beats of the Heart: The Romany Trail Part One: Gypsy Music into Africa
The Romany Trail Part One takes us on a search for the lost gypsy tribes of Egypt, up the Nile to the ancient town of Luxor in the shadow of the great Pharaoh’s tombs. Along the way, from the markets of Cairo to the temple of Karnak, we meet dancing girls and acrobats, magicians, fortune-tellers and even mystics performing an exorcism. The progra..
Beats of the Heart: The Romany Trail Part Two: Gypsy Music into Europe
The Romany Trail Part Two is a penetrating, provocative tour of a fabled people’s existence. It reveals the prejudice they still face daily and which they combat with the lyrics and music they have carried and adapted on their long migrations. Featuring: The music of Django Reinhardt, the ballads of the Holocaust, Hungarian folk musicians and pr..
Beats of the Heart: The Two Faces of Thailand A Musical Portrait
Even today, at the king of Thailands birthday celebrations, massed bands play His Majesty’s own compositions, whilst the King plays his clarinet in the royal recording studio. But the musical underbelly of the country had never been exposed before this film, which - by contrast - captures the cabarets and boxing rings of Thailand, and the true st..
Gil Sharone Wicked Beats
Gil Sharone’s Wicked Beats is a complete guide to the Jamaican drumming styles of Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae. Gil Sharone takes you on a musical journey through these styles and explores some of the earlier styles that helped shape them including African Nyabingi and Burru drumming. Gil introduces and demonstrates classic “riddims” that are ..
Monkey Beats
The everyday life of a Monkey is interrupted by a randomly seen advertisement on TV, in which someone named Mister Success invites the audience to become successful and cool by trying to win a talisman toy from the UFO catcher. On the way to success, the Monkey will have to face the guy from the advertisement, and only a dance battle will show whic..
Heart Beats
Two male star-crossed lovers find the courage to stand up for love against their opposing worlds.
Distant Beats
A struggling classical singer trying to elevate his old traditional music format, an upcoming Seattle singer, an aspiring musician and an Indian folk singer come together in a life changing journey.
