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Related Viewing

Beyond the group's own films, a handful of other documentaries and features fill in the wider world the group came from.

The Last Waltz (1978) and Once Were Brothers (2019) are the two essential titles, both covered in depth on Books & Documentaries.

No Direction Home (2005, directed by Martin Scorsese). Scorsese's Bob Dylan documentary, covering the same 1965-66 electric tour years the group lived through as his backing band, from Dylan's own side of the story.

Festival Express (2003). A documentary built from long-unseen footage of the 1970 Festival Express train tour across Canada, which the group played alongside the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Buddy Guy, including future bandmate Richard Bell, then still playing in Joplin's group.

Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Levon Helm (2010). A quieter, more intimate documentary shot in the years before Helm's death, following the Midnight Ramble era and giving a fuller picture of his life outside the group's own story.

A Complete Unknown (2024). A dramatized Bob Dylan biopic covering the same electric-tour period, useful as a companion piece for anyone who wants a scripted, big-screen take on events this site covers as documented history.

None of these require having seen the others first, but The Last Waltz remains the right starting point for anyone new to the group's story on film.