I Need That Record! vs The Road Forward

The Road Forward has the higher audience score (9/10 against 6.5/10 for I Need That Record!). I Need That Record! is the shorter watch at 1h 17m compared with 1h 41m. I Need That Record! is the older of the two (2008 against 2017). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

I Need That Record! posterI Need That Record!2008 VS The Road Forward posterThe Road Forward2017
I Need That Record!The Road Forward
Audience score★ 6.5/10★ 9.0/10
Year20082017
Length1h 17m1h 41m
GenresDocumentary, MusicDocumentary, Music
Country–Canada
DirectorBrendan TollerMarie Clements
Main castNoam Chomsky, Glenn Branca, Pat Carney, Chris Frantz, Bob GruenStephen E. Miller, Bill Croft, Patti Allan, Evan Leslie Adams, Chief Leonard George

Synopsis

I Need That Record!

Guerilla filmmaker Brendan Toller unleashes I NEED THAT RECORD! THE DEATH (OR POSSIBLE SURVIVAL) OF THE INDEPENDENT RECORD STORE, "an elegy for a vanishing subculture...a lively, bittersweet film that examines - with caustic humor, brutal candor, and, ultimately, great affection - why roughly 3,000 indie record stores have closed across the nation over the past decade," (Johnathan Perry, Boston Globe). A tour-de-force tale of greed, media…

The Road Forward

The Road Forward is an electrifying musical documentary that connects a pivotal moment in Canada’s civil rights history—the beginnings of Indian Nationalism in the 1930s—with the powerful momentum of First Nations activism today. Interviews and musical sequences describe how a tiny movement, the Native Brotherhood and Sisterhood, grew to become a successful voice for change across the country. Visually stunning, The Road Forward seamlessly…

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