Doc’n Roll Film Festival 2022

Doc’n Roll Film Festival Manchester returns for its 2022 edition. This year, the line-up celebrates music subcultures through a series of creative, compelling and unforgettable documentaries that spotlight the performers, labels, scenes, and stories behind the music.

Previously in this season

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande + Q&A

In the racially turbulent UK of the early 70s, a group of black musicians came together in South London with a common love of rhythms…

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This is National Wake

This debut feature, steeped in previously unseen footage of a 1970s anit-racist counterculture that few knew existed, reveals a band whose music and memories comprise…

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Heaven Stood Still: The Incarnations of Willy DeVille

His songs were anthems to the heartbroken and the downtrodden. Yet almost no one knows where he came from or who he loved. That is…

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A Film About Studio Electrophonique

A euphoric record of Sheffield-based Studio Electrophonique, which nurtured a generation of superstars such as ABC, The Human League, Heaven 17, Clock DVA and Pulp

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Lee Fields: Faithful Man

Interspersed with striking, never-before-seen performances of new and classic Lee Fields songs, Faithful Man takes us through Lee’s memories

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