Frank Zappa Movies

An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene, Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of...

Rock artist Frank Zappa hosts a concert in New York City. This movie contains tons of on-stage footage, off-stage footage, and animation.

A look at the problems associated with cocaine use, including the toll it takes, not only on the users themselves but on society in general.

Documentary about young pop and rock musicians producing music as "a symptom and generator" of social unrest and generation gaps.

Several pieces of Frank Zappa's music are set against clay animation by Bruce Bickford.

Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from...

Frank Zappa: New York & Elsewhere is an Austrian released TV documentary directed in 1980 by Rudi Dolezal and Hannes Rossacher, aka DoRo productions,...

Video of the famous performance released by both Zappa and Lennon

On the liner notes to Freak Out!, the 1967 debut album by Zappa's original band the Mothers of Invention, Zappa listed some seventy-two names on the...

People are asked to tell their favorite jokes.

A mental journey - historical, political, musical and metaphysical - in contemporary times, from the Sixties until nowadays.

Here's the most detailed, informative, fascinating Zappa & the Mothers doc yet! Their restless experimentation and agitated social satire come into...

Frank Scheffer's (collage like) documentary on the American composer and rock guitarist Frank Zappa, as broadcast by VPRO in the Netherlands April...

Featuring the only footage Zappa cut together from his legendary 1973 Roxy concerts, "Cheepnis" sings the praises of low-budget monster movies. This...

Educational film convincing kids to vote, hosted by Frank Zappa.

In 1967, Ed Seeman hired Frank Zappa for $2,000 to do the soundtrack for this animated TV commercial that he was animating and producing. It won a...

Documentary on Frank Zappa.

On March 24, 1989, the supertanker Exxon Valdez ran aground in the pristine waters of Alaska's Prince William Sound, spilling 11 million gallons of...

A film by Frank Zappa made for the Dilexi Foundation on KQED