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"The movies started flirting with what would be called &amp;quot;rock &amp;amp; roll&amp;quot; from the very beginning, slapping Bill Haley and the Comets&amp;apos; &amp;quot;Rock Around the Clock&amp;quot; onto a scene in the juvenile-delinquent drama The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and co-opting Elvis Presley&amp;apos;s proto-punk pout for the big screen as soon as they could. But there&amp;apos;s nothing like the real thing when it comes to seeing those historical musical moments, which is where documentaries come in: A number of nonfiction filmmakers saw the advantage of capturing these artists onstage, backstage or behind the scenes &amp;#x2014; partially for posterity, partially for plain old reportage and partially for the second-hand high of it all.\r\nSo we&amp;apos;ve compiled the 40 greatest rock documentaries, or &amp;quot;rockumentaries,&amp;quot; of all time &amp;#x2014; the concert films, fly-on-the-wall tour chronicles, artist portraits and cinematic punk and hip-hop cultural surveys that have set the standard and still stand out. (If the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recognizes something under its banner, then it made our cut &amp;#x2014; hence the inclusion of hip-hop docs but no jazz or world-music docs. Very sorry, Buena Vista Social Club, we still love you.) Play this list loud."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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