10 Greatest Rock Documentaries Ever Made

10. Hype! - Various

The idea of a documentary is normally focused on capturing the ins and outs of what happened during its creation. It gets a little bit tricky with rock and roll though, with most of the lavish movies taking place well after any of the nitty gritty tales actually happened. In that respect, it's practically a miracle that we actually managed to get a movie like Hype! at all.

While most other grunge aficionados would point you towards a movie like Singles as capturing the spirit of the Seattle sound, Hype! is probably the more focused documentary when it comes to the actual music taking place. Having clips from heavyhitters in the scene like Buzz Osbourne and Chris Cornell, this entire documentary feels like being on the ground floor of the entire grunge operation, almost like the artists themselves are completely unaware with how much things are going to blow up in the coming years.

It's almost uncanny how much is covered here since it was made pretty much in tandem with when grunge was starting to take off, as most of the rock stars in question talk about the entire scene as if it's far away in the past. Although the world took a little while longer to catch on, this is the healthy retrospective of grunge before the alternative waves finally hit the shore.