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List of Films About Blues Music
Films dealing with blues history or prominently featuring blues music as a theme include:
- St. Louis Blues (1929): the only short movie with Bessie Smith
- Sounder (1972)
- Lady Sings The Blues (1972): about Billie Holiday
- Leadbelly (1976): biographical film about Huddie William Ledbetter
- The Blues Brothers (1980)
- Streets of Fire (1984)
- Crossroads (1986): directed by Walter Hill, about a "deal with the devil", with a soundtrack by Ry Cooder and a guitar duel between Ralph Macchio and Steve Vai
- Mo' Better Blues (1990)
- The Search for Robert Johnson (1991): documentary aiming to discover facts and myths about the infamous blues guitarist
- Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
- The Blues, a Musical Journey (2003): Martin Scorsese produced seven documentaries about the blues:
- Ray (2004)
- Richard Johnston: Hill Country Troubadour (2005): Max Shores documentary about R. L. Burnside, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Junior Kimbrough, Richard Johnston, and other north Mississippi hill country blues musicians
- You See Me Laughin' (2005): directed by Mandy Stein, documentary that takes a look at the often untamed lifestyles of the last great North Mississippi bluesmen and the Oxford, Mississippi-based label (Fat Possum Records) that struggles to record them
- Black Snake Moan (2007)
- Honeydripper (2007)
- Cadillac Records (2008)
- Who Do You Love? (2008)
- Crossroads (1986)
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