Metal: A Headbanger's Journey vs The Road Forward

The Road Forward has the higher audience score (9/10 against 7.6/10 for Metal: A Headbanger's Journey). Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is the shorter watch at 1h 31m compared with 1h 41m. Metal: A Headbanger's Journey is the older of the two (2005 against 2017). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey posterMetal: A Headbanger's Journey2005 VS The Road Forward posterThe Road Forward2017
Metal: A Headbanger's JourneyThe Road Forward
Audience score★ 7.6/10★ 9.0/10
Year20052017
Length1h 31m1h 41m
GenresDocumentary, MusicDocumentary, Music
CountryCanadaCanada
DirectorJessica Joy Wise, Sam DunnMarie Clements
Main castAlice Cooper, Sam Dunn, Chris Adler, Tom Araya, Gavin BaddeleyStephen E. Miller, Bill Croft, Patti Allan, Evan Leslie Adams, Chief Leonard George

Synopsis

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey

The film discusses the traits and originators of some of metal's many subgenres, including the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, power metal, Nu metal, glam metal, thrash metal, black metal, and death metal. Dunn uses a family-tree-type flowchart to document some of the most popular metal subgenres. The film also explores various aspects of heavy metal culture.

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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