"Jimi Hendrix (1973). I went to see this 5 days in a row when it first came out. Worth it just to see Jimi playing 12-string and for the Little Richard interview segments.

Instrument.

1. Don’t Look Back
2. The Filth and the Fury
3. No Direction Home
4. Live Forever
5. Punk: Attitude
6. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
7. New York Doll (this is a good one that no one's mentioned yet - about the bass player from the New York Dolls)

Nirvana: Tonight! Live! Sold Out! and Sonic Youth: 1991 - The Year Punk Broke are good, though they're only semi-documentaries.

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Instrument.

I love Instrument as well. Two others

1 - The Refused are Fucking Dead
2 - Lightning Bolt - The Power of Salad

Chicago Blues (Rhapsody Films, 1972), for its gritty atmosphere, amazing club performances by Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, J.B. Hutto - very interesting commentary particularly by Waters, Willie Dixon, Hutto, and (an occasionally annoying!) Dick Gregory - the unknown Floyd Jones telling the (rather touching, I think) story of how he composed his song "Stockyard Blues". The film is short at only 50 mins., but somehow that seems just right.