Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake vs The Ballad of Crowfoot
Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake has the higher audience score (10/10 against 6.8/10 for The Ballad of Crowfoot). The Ballad of Crowfoot is the shorter watch at 10m compared with 1h 34m. The Ballad of Crowfoot is the older of the two (1968 against 2023). Both are documentary, music movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake
The Ballad of Crowfoot| Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake | The Ballad of Crowfoot | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 10.0/10 | ★ 6.8/10 |
| Year | 2023 | 1968 |
| Length | 1h 34m | 10m |
| Genres | Documentary, Music | Documentary, Music |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Tayla Tracey Goodman | Willie Dunn |
| Main cast | Eric Singer, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Lee Kerslake, Mick Box | – |
Synopsis
Not On the Heep: The Heavy Metal Saga of Lee Kerslake
At Heavy Metal’s dawn, the sun rose to the beat of Lee Kerslake’s powerhouse drumming. Through a career of 50 years and 60 million albums sold, he became a legend. Now he must face the end of his days. He reconnects with lifelong pals from Kiss, Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard, Deep Purple and Iron Maiden, and performs one last time with the band he created, Uriah Heep.
The Ballad of Crowfoot
Released in 1968 and often referred to as Canada’s first music video, The Ballad of Crowfoot was directed by Willie Dunn, a Mi’kmaq/Scottish folk singer and activist who was part of the historic Indian Film Crew, the first all-Indigenous production unit at the NFB. The film is a powerful look at colonial betrayals, told through a striking montage of archival images and a ballad composed by Dunn himself about the legendary 19th-century Siksika…
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