Documentaries and movies about Metal
Documentaries
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years
VH1’s Heavy: The Story of Metal
Frontier: A Trail of Noise Documentary
Full Metal Village (preparing for Wacken)
Movies
Books
Heavy: How Metal Changes the Way We See the World
Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal
Thrash
Documentaries
Get Thrashed: The Story of Thrash Metal
Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
Inside Metal: The Rise of L.A. Thrash Metal
Murder in the Front Row (Bay area documentary)
90´s Thrash/Death Metal – A Deathumentary (Morbid Angel, Death, Gorguts, Entombed, Sepultura)
Dave Mustaine: Mustaine – A Life In Metal (2011)
Black Metal
Documentaries
True Norwegian Black Metal | VICE
10 Legitimately Satanic Metal Acts
10 Times Black Metal Was Actually Terrifying
Mayhem reacts to Lord of the Chaos
Norwegian Black Metal: A Documentary
Ten Years Of Mayhem | Black Metal Documentary
American Black Metal: Past and Present
Belgium Black Metal Documentary
British Black Metal: The Extreme Underground | Full Documentary
Bleu Blanc Satan: Early French Black Metal In French
Movies
Lord of Chaos
Books
Lod of Chaos
NON SERVIAM, L’HISTOIRE OFFICIELLE DE ROTTING CHRIST DE DAYAL PATTERSON
Black Metal: Evolution of the Cult
True Norwegian Black Metal, a book on Black Metal by Peter Beste
Speed Metal
NWOBM
Motörhead: 25 & Alive – Boneshaker
Ozzy Osbourne: God Bless Ozzy Osbourne
Motörhead: 49% Motherfucker, 51% Son Of A Bitch Medley
Dio: Dreamers Never Die And 9 Other Great Heavy Metal Documentaries
50 Heavy Metal Years Judas Priest
Rainbow in the Dark Dio’s Autobiography
Glam Metal
Mötley Crüe: Lewd Crüed & Tattooed
Bruce Dickinson: What Does This Button Do? (2018)
Movies
The Dirt Based on Mötley Crüe’s 2001 best-selling autobiography
Death Metal / Melo Death
Cannibal Corpse: Centuries of Torment: The First 20 Years
Chuck Schuldiner – The Godfather of Death Metal
Death Metal Special 1993 (Death Metal Rockumentary)
Death in the studio recording “Individual Thought Patterns” – 1993
Remembering Chuck: A Tribute To Chuck Schuldiner
Chaos Ridden Years (Children of Bodom)
Thrashed, lost and strung out (Children of Bodom)
Sam Dunns documentary on the evolution of Extreme Metal
Books
Choosing Death
Swedish Death Metal
Alexi Laiho – Chaos, Control & Guitar
Groove Metal
Lamb of God – “As The Palaces Burn” Documentary Movie Official Trailer
Grindcore
Doom Metal
You can also watch
On Netflix, “Gone Too Soon” is about the death of Hendrix, Joplin and others.
On Netflix Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage
On Netflix, Who the F**k Is That Guy? The Fabulous Journey of Michael Alago
On Prime, “Punk Revolution NYC: The Velvet Underground, The New York Dolls and the CBGB Set” and “Punk is not Dead”
On Prime Scorpions – Forever and a Day
On Prime The Rainbow (Famous LA bar and Rockstars)