Don Van Vliet Movies

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

With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life an...

Don van Vliet, alias "Captain Beefheart", is one of the most influential, misunderstood, talked about, admired, copied, treasured, loved and quoted mu...

Elaine Shepherd’s classic BBC documentary, introduced and narrated by John Peel. Completely wonderful, a 50 minute joy: reviews, articles, blog posts...

Captain Beefheart Under Review documents the career of the unique musician. The film combines performance footage by the man and his various back-up p...

A documentary on the life and music of manic-depressive, paranoid-schizophrenic cult music icon Wild Man Fischer.

The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the Fillmor...

Experimental commercial made for Captain Beefheart's LP of the same name. Is in MOMA despite a stunted release.