Don Van Vliet Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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