Documentaries Directed by Questlove
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Explore Questlove’s documentary directing catalogue in year order, with the newest entries first and earlier work following. The sequence starts with Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That’s the Weight of the World), followed by Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music and Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius). You can use those titles as points of entry, then browse the complete catalogue or filter and sort the results to suit your interests. Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) is also included. Comparing the entries by their place in the newest-first sequence offers one way to trace the range of Questlove’s documentary work.
4 on record. Sorted by year; every figure comes from Wikidata (CC0), with the page it was read from on each entry.
2020s4 films
- Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) 1 Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World)
- Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music 2 Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
3 Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius) - Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 4 Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Photo credits (1)
Sly Lives! (aka The Burden of Black Genius): NBC, Public domain. Photos from Wikimedia Commons; DocumentaryTube links each to its file page.