Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World

This movie blew me away. Not only do you see the evolution of rock and roll, you see it's influence on other genres and performances by some of the great musicians of all time.

You also see the targeting of Native American cultures in our early history, which is a story that is still rarely told,and one of our greatest crimes.

For many reasons, you MUST see and share, this movie.

Extremely interesting in many many ways, beyond music history.

It touches many aspects of American history and society and the important contributions of the original Americans, which most of us us have heard without knowing.

Could have been more polished technically, but the material is invaluable. I could not stop watching, and being surprised, till the end.

I was MOVED. This is a great historical piece that takes you back thru a lot of rock and roll, concert footage, interviews and testimony. You'll be behind the scenes, up close and personal.

This starts with a full on Link Wray appreciation overload as we learn he was half native Indian. It's interesting, but doesn't really feel like sure footing for a feature length documentary. This format continues with Charlie Patton, Hendrix, but it improves with a deep look at white Americas treatment of native Americans and the oppression of their culture... and their music. Utilising some really nice archival footage, it's a story of diversification of people and cultures, the rhythms those people brought with them, the birth of new sounds from those origins and how those sounds came to influence the music we recognise today.

I saw this film at the Sonoma film fest. There were probably 200 people in the audience and all sat in rapt attention. No one walked out and there was mad applause at the end. A beautiful music and Native American feel good story masterfully told.