Documentary, Music
The 94 minute documentary film “From the 50 Yard Line” presents the football field not only as a sports venue but also as a stage for the marching band. The viewer goes on an exciting adventure through band camp, auditions, the marching season, and the regional and national competitions in 2006. You see the great rewards of disciplined practice, the overlooked technical artistry of the group endeavor, and the important life changing effects of instrumental music education. Another layer delves into the misconceptions about marching band, showing "band nerds" in a whole new light.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
BLACKPINK 2021 Season's Greetings
Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
Mr. Holland's Opus
The Whole Gritty City
A Hard Day's Night
Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood
Army Of Lovers Hurrah Hurrah Apocalypse
Lords of Chaos
The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
The Order Of Israfel - Live At Sweden Rock Festival June 3rd 2015
BAND
Rage Against The Machine: Pinkpop Festival
The Five Heartbeats
American Satan
The Marching Band
Green Day: The Early Years
Given
Fubar
Lu Over the Wall
SIMILAR MOVIES
BLACKPINK 2021 Season's Greetings
IMDB 9 | Dec , 2020
Welcome 2021 and enjoy a happy New Year from the members of BLACKPINK.Frances Carroll & 'The Coquettes'
IMDB 5 | Feb , 1940
Bandleader Frances Carroll leads The Coquettes, an all-female band, in several swing tunes.Mr. Holland's Opus
IMDB 7 | Dec , 1995
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.The Whole Gritty City
IMDB 8 | Oct , 2013
Young members of 3 New Orleans school marching bands grow up in America's most musical city, and one of its most dangerous. Their band directors get them ready to perform in the Mardi Gras parades, and teach them to succeed and to survive.A Hard Day's Night
IMDB 7.3 | Jul , 1964
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.Scouts Honor: Inside a Marching Brotherhood
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2014
Three young men commit themselves to one of the best summers of their lives...marching in a World Class drum and bugle corps. The bond of brotherhood this organization provides, helps them through both their struggles and their triumphs.Army Of Lovers Hurrah Hurrah Apocalypse
IMDB 8 | Nov , 2005
What Army Of Lovers claimed to lack in traditional musical talent, they easily made up for in hi-tech-literate computer wizardry, and highly original visual charisma, never seen before nor after in the history of pop music. For the first time ever you will find the collective visual efforts of Army Of Lovers compiled on one single DVD.Lords of Chaos
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2018
A teenager's quest to launch Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in the 1990s results in a very violent outcome.The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
IMDB 5.5 | Jun , 2014
A personal, accessible look at an artist - Kevin Barnes, frontman of the endlessly versatile indie pop band of Montreal - whose pursuit to make transcendent music at all costs drives him to value art over human relationships. As he struggles with all of those around him, family and bandmates alike, he's forced to reconsider the future of the band, begging the question - is this really worth it?Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
IMDB 6.6 | Nov , 2020
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.The Order Of Israfel - Live At Sweden Rock Festival June 3rd 2015
IMDB 10 | May , 2016
Swedish metal band The Order Of Israfel perform a selection of songs off their first album 'Wisdom' at the Sweden Rock Festival on June 3rd, 2015.BAND
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2025
Was it a cult? A charismatic bandleader convinces four generations of Midlands factory workers to dedicate their lives, and their children’s, to his obsession with leading the world’s best marching band, whatever the cost.Rage Against The Machine: Pinkpop Festival
IMDB 10 | May , 1993
Pinkpop 1993 was held on May 31, 1993 in Landgraaf. It was the 24th edition of the Dutch music festival Pinkpop and the 6th in Landgraaf. There were around 64,300 spectators. During the performance of Thelonious Monster, singer Bob Forrest climbed through one of the songs through the loudspeaker towers to sit on the roof of the main stage as an inanimate person. He was then talked down and continued the performance. During the closing act of the festival, the performance of The Black Crowes , the power went out making it almost dark on the site for about ten minutes. The audience reacted laconically to this pause by loudly singing Monty Python's 'Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life'. The Black Crowes were forced to stop their performance but when the power failure was over they came back on stage to complete the performances.The Five Heartbeats
IMDB 7.3 | Mar , 1991
In the early 1960s, a quintet of hopeful, young African-American men form an amateur vocal group called The Five Heartbeats. After an initially rocky start, the group improves, turns pro, and rises to become a top flight music sensation. Along the way, however, the guys learn many hard lessons about the reality of the music industry.American Satan
IMDB 7.2 | Oct , 2017
A young rock band, half from England and half from the US, drop out of college and move to the Sunset Strip to chase their dreams.The Marching Band
IMDB 7.3 | Nov , 2024
Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.Green Day: The Early Years
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2017
"Green Day: The Early Years" chronicles the rise of the world's most influential punk band, from their origins playing shows at Berkley's notorious Gilman Street venue in the late 80s, through the release of the platinum-selling Dookie in 1994.Given
IMDB 8.3 | Aug , 2020
Haruki secretly had feelings for Akihiko for years, but Akihiko was still in a relationship with his roommate, the violinist Ugetsu Murata. Haruki, Akihiko, and Ugetsu's love clashes and starts to move forward.Fubar
IMDB 6.2 | May , 2002
Terry and Dean are lifelong friends who have grown-up together: shotgunning their first beers, forming their first garage band, and growing the great Canadian mullet known as "hockey hair". Now the lives of these Alberta everymen are brought to the big screen by documentarian Ferral Mitchener in an exploration of the depths of friendship, the fragility of life, growing up gracefully and the art and science of drinking beer like a man.Lu Over the Wall
IMDB 7 | May , 2017
In a small fishing village, a gloomy middle school student named Kai meets a mermaid named Lu.