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Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

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'Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown' is a look at the music career of musician James Brown which begins with his first hit song, 'Please, Please, Please,' in 1956.

Genre:

Musical, Documentary

Actors:

James Brown, Christian McBride, Bobby Byrd, Greg Tate, Louis Jordan, Duke Ellington, Mick Jagger, John Starks, Eugene Bull Connor, Al Sharpton, Martha High, ...»

Director:

Alex Gibney

Country:

United States

Release:

2014

IMDb:

7.4

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Duration:

120 min

KEYWORDS:

#Alex Gibney #Bobby Byrd #Christian McBride #Inaudible Films #Jagged Films #James Brown #Jigsaw Productions #Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown

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ACTORS OF "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown"

James Brown

3 May 1933, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA

Christian McBride

31 May 1972, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Bobby Byrd

15 August 1934, Toccoa, Georgia, USA

Greg Tate

Louis Jordan

8 July 1908, Brinkley, Arkansas, USA

Duke Ellington

29 April 1899, Washington, District of Columbia, USA

Mick Jagger

26 July 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK

John Starks

Eugene 'Bull' Connor

11 July 1897, Selma, Alabama, USA

Al Sharpton

3 October 1954, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Martha High

Little Richard

5 December 1932, Macon, Georgia, USA

Melvin Parker

Alan Leeds

Clyde Stubblefield

18 April 1943, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Micheal Veal

Danny Ray

Ahmir-Khalib Thompson

20 January 1971, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Martin Luther King

15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Malcolm X

19 May 1925, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Lyndon Johnson

27 August 1908, Stonewall, Texas, USA

Maceo Parker

14 February 1943, Kinston, North Carolina, USA

Gerry and the Pacemakers

The Beach Boys

1961, Hawthorne, California, USA

Pee Wee Ellis

21 April 1941, Bradenton, Florida, USA

Fred Wesley

4 July 1943, Mobile, Alabama, USA

Ben Bart

Ed Sullivan

28 September 1901, New York City, New York, USA

James Meredith

25 June 1933, Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA

Cleveland Sellers

Dick Gregory

12 October 1932, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

Stokely Carmichael

29 January 1941, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies [now Trinidad and Tobago]

H. Rap Brown

4 October 1943, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Kevin White

25 September 1929, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Louis B. Lyons

Hubert H. Humphrey

27 May 1911, Wallace, South Dakota, USA

Don Warden

Chuck D.

1 August 1960, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA

Mike Douglas

11 August 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA

David Susskind

19 December 1920, New York City, New York, USA

Richard Nixon

9 January 1913, Yorba Linda, California, USA

Bootsy Collins

26 October 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Phelps 'Catfish' Collins

17 October 1944, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Jim Wipkee

Michael Jackson

29 August 1958, Gary, Indiana, USA

Prince

7 June 1958, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Kanye West

8 June 1977, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Don Cornelius

27 September 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Sammy Davis Jr.

8 December 1925, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Flavor Flav

16 March 1959, Roosevelt, Long Island, New York, USA

Gerald Ford

14 July 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Jason Mizell

21 January 1965, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Jay Z

4 December 1969, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

Brian Jones

February 28, 1942 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Bruno Mars

8 October 1985, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

Darryl McDaniels

31 May 1964, Harlem, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Pat Nixon

16 March 1912, Ely, Nevada, USA

Keith Richards

18 December 1943, Dartford, Kent, England, UK

Dinah Shore

29 February 1916, Winchester, Tennessee, USA

Charlie Watts

2 June 1941, Bloomsbury, London, England, UK

Bill Wyman

24 October 1936, Lewisham, London, England, UK

DIRECTORS OF "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown"

Alex Gibney

23 October 1953, New York City, New York, USA

CREATORS OF "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown"

Alex Gibney

23 October 1953, New York City, New York, USA

CRITICS OF "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown"

RogerEbert.com

There's so much to the Brown story that focus becomes an issue in a film like Alex Gibney's "Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown." How do you capture the hardest working man in show business in just two hours?

October 27, 2014

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The Playlist

While this doc certainly could've used more texture, and sometimes races along like a cinematic Wikipedia entry, Gibney accomplishes his task at hand, showing exactly why Brown has had the ability to "stay on the scene" for decades, and decades to come.

October 27, 2014

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Common Sense Media

His fans will also get a kick out watching him sing, dance, and showboat as only he knew how to do. But if you don't care for the singer or his music, chances are that you'll lose interest in it before it's over.

November 03, 2014

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Slant Magazine

Mr. Dynamite is a strikingly varied and substantial portrait of an intensely complex artist.

October 26, 2014

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New York Times

This is a smart, informative and compassionate look at the artist known as the Godfather of Soul, whose music changed America.

October 27, 2014

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AV Club

Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Of James Brown is an assured threading-of-the-needle, slowly working its way to the sweet spot where the man and the legend overlap.

October 27, 2014

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Los Angeles Times

A documentary film on the life and times of James Brown as the times made the music and the music shaped the times, it is a long, soulful scream over an insistent funky vamp.

October 27, 2014

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San Francisco Chronicle

People make documentaries about musicians all the time, and some of them are rich with insight. But even among the best of the bunch, few are as thorough about the artist's music as Alex Gibney's Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown.

October 27, 2014

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