Movies Like Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid (2010)

Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid is a 2010 documentary, music film from Matthew Longfellow with a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Anvil! The Story of Anvil and Airheads.

Documentary Music

Anvil! The Story of Anvil

2008

At 14, best friends Robb Reiner and Lips made a pact to rock together forever. Their band, Anvil, hailed as the "demi-gods of Canadian metal" influenced a musical generation that includes Metallica, Slayer, and Anthrax. Following a calamitous European tour, Lips and Robb, now in their fifties, set off to record their 13th album in one last attempt to fulfill their boyhood dreams.

7.6

MagicScore

Airheads

1994

The Lone Rangers have heavy-metal dreams and a single demo tape they can't get anyone to play. The solution: Hijack an FM rock radio station and hold the deejays hostage until they agree to broadcast the band's tape.

6.2

MagicScore

Heavy Metal Mater

2010

Mater and Lightning McQueen are ready to rock! When Mater's garage band, Mater and the Gas Caps, records a hit song, Mater becomes a rock legend. Then Lightning joins Mater's band for the rock concert of the century!

6.1

MagicScore

Rite Here Rite Now

2024

Whether you’re a devoted disciple looking to relive treasured memories of the GHOST live spectacle or among the curious uninitiated, RITE HERE RITE NOW will put you right there: putting your phones down and living in the moment—as a shadow of uncertainty looms—completely spellbound and in the thrall of this bombastic yet intimate cinematic portrait of GHOST.

8.8

MagicScore

The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert

1992

A live concert in tribute to Freddie Mercury, former lead singer of Queen. Mercury died of AIDS and so some of the proceeds of this concert went to AIDS research. Features performers such as Metallica, Def Leppard, Elton John, Axl Rose, Extreme, George Michael, and many others. Performers alternate between doing their own hits, covering Queen songs, or jamming with the surviving members of Queen.

8.3

MagicScore

Iron Maiden: Live After Death

1985

Filmed and recorded towards the tail end of 'The World Slavery Tour' over a record breaking four sold out nights at Los Angeles' 13,200 capacity Long Beach Arena. Featuring tracks from their first five albums.

8.2

MagicScore

Rammstein in Amerika

2015

The concert film celebrates the band’s legendary show in New York’s Madison Square Garden – Rammstein’s return to the US after a ten-year absence. In HD and 5.1 surround sound. For the documentary, Rammstein provided extensive, previously unreleased footage and photos from the band archive. In numerous interviews from various periods in the band’s history, the band members speak about their experiences across the Atlantic.

8.0

MagicScore

Iron Maiden: Flight 666

2009

Heavy metal band Iron Maiden's 2008 Somewhere Back in Time World Tour. This concert recording accompanies the documentary film "Iron Maiden: Flight 666". The 16 songs performed were filmed live in 16 different cities giving you the full experience of the live power of Maiden and their fans all around the globe.

7.8

MagicScore

Black Sabbath: The End of The End

2017

Chronicles the final tour from Black Sabbath. On February 4th, 2017, Black Sabbath takes the stage in Birmingham, the city where it all began, to play the 81st and final gig of the tour and bring down the curtain on a career that spanned almost half a century.

7.7

MagicScore

#10

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

2005

The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.

7.6

MagicScore

#11

Dio: Dreamers Never Die

2022

This career spanning documentary on heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio delves deep into his incredible rise from 50's doo-wop crooner, to his early classic rock days in Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, to replacing the iconic lead singer Ozzy Osborne in Black Sabbath, to finally cement his legend with DIO. Ronnie's biography is completely unique to the tired sex, drugs and rock and roll cliches. The film is about perseverance, dreams and the power to believe in yourself.

7.6

MagicScore

#12

Global Metal

2008

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West's most maligned musical genre - heavy metal - has impacted the world's cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world's emerging extreme music scenes; from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads who aren't just absorbing metal from the West - they're transforming it - creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

2004

After bassist Jason Newsted quits the band in 2001, heavy metal superstars Metallica realize that they need an intervention. In this revealing documentary, filmmakers follow the three rock stars as they hire a group therapist and grapple with 20 years of repressed anger and aggression. Between searching for a replacement bass player, creating a new album and confronting their personal demons, the band learns to open up in ways they never thought possible.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

I Am Thor

2015

Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the '70s & '80s whose band, Thor, never quite made it big. Years later he attempts a comeback that nearly kills him.

7.0

MagicScore

#15

The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years

1988

An exploration of the heavy metal scene in Los Angeles, with particular emphasis on glam metal. It features concert footage and interviews of legendary heavy metal and hard rock bands and artists such as Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Kiss, Megadeth, Motörhead, Ozzy Osbourne and W.A.S.P..

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Heavy Metal Parking Lot

1986

Heavy Metal Parking Lot documents heavy metal music fans tailgating in the parking lot outside the Capital Centre (since demolished) in Landover, Maryland, on May 31, 1986, before a Judas Priest concert (with opening act Dokken).

6.8

MagicScore

#17

Metallica and San Francisco Symphony: S&M2

2019

S&M2, the live concert film from Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony is the concert event of the year! S&M2 features 20 songs from the two-night event that opened San Francisco’s new Chase Center, with many Metallica fan favourites and two unique classical songs chosen by San Francisco Symphony Musical Director, Michael Tilson Thomas. S&M2 is newly re-edited by the band, with re-mixed and remastered audio, for a whole new look and sound from the original theatrical run in October 2019.

8.7

MagicScore

#18

Iron Maiden: En Vivo!

2012

Filmed on 10th April 2011 in front of over 50,000 ecstatic fans at the Estadio Nacional, Santiago during the Round The World In 66 Days leg of The Final Frontier World Tour, this concert video captures a magnificent performance by the band, ardently embraced by the legendary Latino passion and energy of their Chilean fans. With spectacular stage backdrops, dynamic musicianship and a literally jaw-dropping appearance by Eddie, this live show encapsulates to perfection the heart and soul of Iron Maiden 2011.

8.6

MagicScore

#19

Metallica: Live Shit - Binge & Purge, Seattle 1989

1989

Live concert from the "Damaged Justice" tour. Recorded at the Seattle Coliseum, Seattle, Washington, on August 29 and 30, 1989.

8.5

MagicScore

#20

Slipknot - Day of the Gusano

2017

Slipknot' 'Knotfest' performance is chronicled through live footage and behind-the-scenes looks at the event.

7.9

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid?

The top films similar to Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid by MovieMagicScore are Anvil! The Story of Anvil (7.6), Airheads (6.2), Heavy Metal Mater (6.1). Each shares documentary/music themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid worth watching?

Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.1/10 from 24 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid?

Classic Albums: Black Sabbath - Paranoid (2010) is a documentary, music film directed by Matthew Longfellow, starring Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler.

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