Rick Rubin
Also Known As: Frederick Jay Rubin, Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin
Biography: Frederick Jay "Rick" Rubin (born March 10, 1963) is an American record executive and record producer. He is a co-founder (alongside Russell Simmons) of Def Jam Recordings, founder of American Recordings, and former co-president of Columbia Records. Rubin helped popularize hip-hop by producing records for acts such as the Beastie Boys, Geto Boys, Run-DMC, Public Enemy, and LL Cool J. He has also produced hit records for acts from a variety of other genres, predominantly heavy metal (Danzig, Metallica, and Slayer), alternative rock (the Cult, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Strokes and Weezer), hard rock (Audioslave and Aerosmith), nu-metal (Linkin Park, Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down), and country (Johnny Cash and the Chicks). In 2007, Rubin was called "the most important producer of the last 20 years" by MTV and was named on Time's list of the "100 Most Influential People in the World". His first book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, was published in January 2023.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lido Beach, New York, USA
Birthday: March 10, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
Overview: Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-27
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Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free
Overview: Drawn from a newly discovered archive of 16mm film showing Tom Petty at work on his 1994 record Wildflowers, considered by many including Rolling Stone to be his greatest album ever, Somewhere You Feel Free is an intimate view of a musical icon.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-20
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: Funky Monks
Overview: An intimate look at Los Angeles-based funk rock foursome Red Hot Chili Peppers' creative process as they join producer Rick Rubin at a Hollywood Hills mansion to record their 1991 studio album 'Blood Sugar Sex Magik', which would go on to propel the band into critical acclaim and worldwide popularity.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-29
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Chris Rock: Road To Live Special
Overview: Chris Rock gives an exclusive look at his year on tour leading up to this historic night. With appearances from Dave Chappelle, Adam Sandler, Kevin Hart, and many more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-03-04
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Krush Groove
Overview: Russell Walker is a young, successful manager of rap performers, handling acts for the Krush Groove label, including Run-DMC and The Fat Boys. When Run-D.M.C. has a hit record and Russell needs more money to press more copies, he borrows it from a street hustler and soon regrets his decision.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-25
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2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Overview: Filmed at the Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse in Cleveland, Ohio, the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony honors inductees: Tina Turner, Carole King, The Go-Go's, JAY-Z, Foo Fighters, and Todd Rundgren; along with Kraftwerk, Charley Patton and Gil Scott-Heron; LL Cool J, Billy Preston and Randy Rhoads; Clarence Avant for the Ahmet Ertegun Award. The special music event also features a host of all-star presenters, performers, and special guests, including Angela Bassett, Christina Aguilera, Mickey Guyton, H.E.R., Keith Urban, Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Drew Barrymore, Paul McCartney, Lionel Richie, and many others.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-20
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JAY-Z: Fade to Black
Overview: An intimate look at hip-hop artist Shawn Carter, Jay-Z, revealing the multiple Grammy Award winning artist as never before, from his background and rise to fame to the recording of his last album. The film chronicles the legendary concert of Jay-Z's performance at Madison Square Garden in November 2003. In an unprecedented event, a hip-hop artist sold out an arena in only two hours. Nearly one year later, fans and artists alike still reflect on this monumental musical night. The event was a spectacular culmination of Jay-Z's recording career prior to his self-proclaimed retirement from solo performing. Yet this one night also defined a musical generation, showcasing the evolution and reach of the world's most popular music genre. Guest performers included Jay-Z's closest friends and music industry colleagues: Beyoncé, Mary J. Blige, Missy Elliott, R. Kelly, Foxy Brown, Pharrell, and Questlove and The Illadelphonics along with appearances by hip hop icons Damon Dash.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-05
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Sound City
Overview: The history of Sound City and their huge recording device; exploring how digital change has allowed 'people that have no place' in music to become stars. It follows former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighter David Grohl as he attempts to resurrect the studio back to former glories.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-18
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Circus Maximus
Overview: Travis Scott takes his audience on a mind-bending visual odyssey across the globe, woven together by the speaker rattling sounds of his highly anticipated upcoming album "UTOPIA". A surreal and psychedelic journey, uniting a collective of visionary filmmakers from around the world in a kaleidoscopic exploration of human experience and the power of soundscapes.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-27
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One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das
Overview: Krishna Das is on a journey to India to discover legendary spiritual teacher Neem Karoli Baba, through drug addiction and depression, to his eventual emergence as a world-famous Kirtan singer.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-08
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500 Days in UCLA (Cut Footage Documentary)
Overview: Additional/cut footage from the leaked Kanye West documentary titled "500 Days in UCLA", directed by Nico Ballesteros. Includes a lengthy "presidential vlog" segment at the start documenting Kanye West's visit with former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-03-13
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Beastie Boys Story
Overview: Here's a little story they're about to tell... Mike Diamond and Adam Horovitz share the story of their band and 40 years of friendship in a live documentary experience directed by friend, collaborator, and their former grandfather, Spike Jonze.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-24
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Men Don't Leave
Overview: A widowed mother and her two sons move to Baltimore and struggle to adjust to urban life, encountering numerous eccentric characters along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-02
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Neil Young & Crazy Horse: World Record: The Making Of - A Chronicle of the Music
Overview: Behind the Scenes / Making of documentary of Neil Young's 2022 album, 'World Record'
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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Johnny Cash: American Rebel
Overview: Johnny Cash: American Rebel is built around 12 essential Johnny Cash tracks spanning four decades that each deliver the passion, musicality and messages against war, injustice, racism and prejudice, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Jackson,” “San Quentin,” “Man in Black,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Ring of Fire” and “Hurt.” Each song illustrates a chapter in his life, as well the story of an ever-changing America from the 1950s to modern day, as told through interviews, archival concert footage, photographs and personal artifacts from the Cash family.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-12
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Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird
Overview: A film that charts the artistic and personal relationship between two era-defining artists, Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala (At the Drive-In/The Mars Volta), told almost entirely through hundreds of hours of self-shot footage filmed by Omar over the last 40 years.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-11-20
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Run DMC: Forever Kings
Overview: Run DMC paved the way for rap artists of today when they broke onto the scene in the early 1980s. Pioneers of the ever-evolving genre, they knew early on that rap music was a force to be dealt with, and they've commanded respect ever since. With the passing of Jam Master Jay, one-third of their blockbuster team, the surviving members take a look back at their triumphant career as one of music's most important icons.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-10
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May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
Overview: An intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a- half rise, while chronicling their present-day collaboration with famed producer Rick Rubin on the multi-Grammy-nominated album “True Sadness.”
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-09-12
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Runnin' Down a Dream
Overview: Directed by Peter Bogdanovich and packed with rare concert footage and home movies, this documentary explores the history of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, including Petty's famous collaborations and notorious clashes with the record industry. Interviews with musical luminaries including Jackson Browne, George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Roger McGuinn, Jeff Lynne, Dave Stewart and Petty himself shed some revelatory vision.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-14
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Jim Jones - This Is Jim Jones
Overview: A documentary about the rise and fall of rapper Jim Jones.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-06-30
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808
Overview: The inspiring story of the Roland TR808, from the creation of Planet Rock which established it as a dynamic modern instrument, to how it defined hip hop and modern dance culture, through to its continued use today.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-30
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Tougher Than Leather
Overview: Legendary hip-hop group Run-D.M.C. must find and punish the evil drug lord-record company executive who murdered their friend. Along the way, they encounter racist bikers, blonde bimbos, and the Beastie Boys!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-26
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End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones
Overview: A years-in-the-making documentary on the legendary punk band the Ramones. Through a mixture of archival footage, archival and new interviews with all members of the band's various lineups, and new interviews with a number of their contemporaries, the film traces the peaks and valleys the band experienced over the course of its 20-plus year career before disbanding in 1995.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-01-19
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The Cult: Pure Cult Anthology 1984-1995
Overview: An amazing video collection for any fan, covering all eras from Dreamtime through The Cult. This DVD includes an early TV appearance with "Spiritwalker", live performances of "Go West", "In the Clouds" and "Sun King", plus music videos from "Resurrection Joe" through "Coming Down", including the updated "She Sells Sanctuary MCMXCIII". Additional material includes 1986 and 1991 interviews, video introductions by Ian and Billy, the electronic press kit (EPK) for The Cult, and lots more!
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Black Sabbath: 13
Overview: The making of the reunion album '13', featuring original band members Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, with Brad Wilk on drums. Rick Rubin oversees the album's production.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-12
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Tom Petty: Going Home
Overview: Television documentary spanning Tom Petty's career from 1976-1994.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-01-23
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The Making of Minutes to Midnight
Overview: Californian sextet Linkin Park simultaneously took inspiration from and expanded upon the hybrid of heavy rock, hip-hop, and electronics that made such bands as Korn and Limp Bizkit so successful at the tail end of the 1990s. This DVD/CD combo marks the rap-rock heavyweight's triumphant return after a four-year absence. Super producers Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda join the band in crafting MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT, a full-length album that features the single "What I've Done." The DVD also includes downloadable MP3s for each of the songs, plus it takes fans behind the scenes of the album's creation.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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Linkin Park: Meeting of A Thousand Suns
Overview: A look at the creative process behind Linkin Park's 2010 album "A Thousand Suns"
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-14
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Truth to Power
Overview: The Grammy-winning lead singer of System of a Down, Serj Tankian helps to awaken a political revolution on the other side of the world, inspiring Armenia's struggle for democracy through his music and message.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-15
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Biography: The Nine Lives of Ozzy Osbourne
Overview: For over five decades, Ozzy Osbourne has personified rock and roll, from his childhood in poverty and time in prison, to fronting metal band Black Sabbath, a successful solo career and a lovable 21st century television dad.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-07
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Johnny Cash: The Last Great American
Overview: This first major retrospective of Cash's life, times and music features contributions from his daughter Rosanne Cash and son John Carter Cash, his longtime manager Lou Robin and fellow musicians including Little Richard, Cowboy Jack Clement, Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard and Elvis Costello.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-27
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I Am Johnny Cash
Overview: I am Johnny Cash is a celebration of the larger-than-life Johnny Cash from the unique perspective of the Man in Black's greatest songs the 'essentials'. Each song brings to life a chapter in the story of America from the 1950's to the modern day as we tour the life of musical and artistic expression of one of music's most notorious rebels.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-01-01
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