No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005) on Netflix

NR20053h 28mBiography Documentary

Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in 1961 and sings in the folk clubs of Greenwich Village. He becomes a songwriter, a protest singer and a rock star.

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Plot summary

Bob Dylan's years between 1961 and 1966 are followed through archival footage and interviews with people who knew him. He leaves Minnesota for New York, sings in the coffee houses of Greenwich Village, and takes singing styles, chord changes and rare records from others. His songs of topical witness bring him a following, and he goes on to write songs of raucous independence. He moves from folk to rock. The title comes from a line in his 1965 single "Like a Rolling Stone."

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

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Footage of Bob Dylan's 1966 Manchester Free Trade Hall concert, where an angry fan shouted "Judas!" before he and the Hawks played "Like a Rolling Stone", was found in 2004 in a pile of water-damaged film recovered from Dylan's vault. D. A. Pennebaker had shot the onstage color footage.
The documentary, which describes the 1960 New York folk scene, inspired Justin Timberlake's performance in the Coen brothers' film Inside Llewyn Davis (2013).
The cover photo on the DVD package, by Barry Feinstein, shows Bob Dylan standing in front of the Aust Ferry terminal in Gloucestershire in May 1966, shortly before the opening of the Severn Bridge, which replaced the ferry.