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10 Best Movies Like Sam Cooke: Crossing Over

If you loved Sam Cooke: Crossing Over, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese

2019★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that y...

#2
Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me

2022★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

After years in the limelight, Selena Gomez achieves unimaginable stardom. But just as she reaches a new peak, an unexpected turn pulls her into darkness. This uniquely raw and inti...

#3
Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon

Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon

2011★ 8.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

See Michael Jackson, one of the most recognizable and popular entertainers of all time, like never before in the feature-length tribute Michael Jackson: The Life of an Icon. Known ...

#4
The Devil and Daniel Johnston

The Devil and Daniel Johnston

2006★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his men...

#5
Bad 25

Bad 25

2012★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Spike Lee pays tribute to Michael Jackson's Bad on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the epochal album, offering behind-the-scenes footage of Jackson recording the album and intervie...

#6
Thriller 40

Thriller 40

2023★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sam Cooke: Crossing Over for fans of Documentary & Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Forty years after the release of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller,’ the best-selling album of all-time, director Nelson George takes fans back in time to the making of a pop masterpiece...

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