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Zappa

"Save the Vault. Tell the Story."

2020

2h 9m

7.3(61 votes)

Music

Documentary

Overview

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 and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.

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3 videos

Cast & Crew

97 members

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Frank Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Mike Keneally

Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

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Pamela Des Barres

Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

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Lonnie Lardner

Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)

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Patrice Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)

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Rose Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)

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Francis Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)

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Edgard Varèse

Self (archive footage)

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Don Van Vliet

Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)

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The Mothers of Invention

Themselves (archive footage)

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Johnny Guitar Watson

Self (archive footage)

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Pamela Zarubica

Self - Zappa's Roommate

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Carlo Zappavigna

Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)

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Bunk Gardner

Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969

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Ian Underwood

Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975

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Ruth Underwood

Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976

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Gail Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Wife

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Tom Wilson

Self - Music Producer (archive footage)

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Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage)

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Roy Estrada

Self - Bass (archive footage)

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Ray Collins

Self - Vocal (archive footage)

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Don Preston

Self - Keyboards (archive footage)

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Jimmy Carl Black

Self - Drums (archive footage)

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Arthur Dyer Tripp III

Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp)

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Cal Schenkel

Self (archive footage)

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Jimi Hendrix

Self (archive footage)

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Moon Unit Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Ronald Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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Nancy Reagan

Self (archive footage)

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David Bowie

Self (archive footage)

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Mick Jagger

Self (archive footage)

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Joni Mitchell

Self (archive footage)

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Dweezil Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Alice Cooper

Self (archive footage)

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Howard Kaylan

Self (archive footage)

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Mark Volman

Self (archive footage)

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Aynsley Dunbar

Self - Drums (archive footage)

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Jeff Simmons

Self - Bass (archive footage)

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George Duke

Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)

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Jean-Luc Ponty

Self (archive footage)

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Yoko Ono

Self (archive footage)

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John Lennon

Self (archive footage)

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Jerry D. Good

Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good)

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Ringo Starr

Self (archive footage)

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Steve Vai

Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982

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Ike Willis

Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage)

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Bruce Bickford

Self - Animator

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Tom Fowler

Self (archive footage)

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Napoleon Murphy Brock

Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock)

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Ralph Humphrey

Self (archive footage)

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Chester Thompson

Self (archive footage)

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Bruce Fowler

Self (archive footage)

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Patrick O'Hearn

Self (archive footage)

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Peter Wolf

Self (archive footage)

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Terry Bozzio

Self (archive footage)

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Tommy Mars

Self (archive footage)

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Adrian Belew

Self (archive footage)

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Scott Thunes

Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988

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Joe Travers

Self

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John Belushi

Self (archive footage)

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Ray White

Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984

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Arthur Barrow

Self (archive footage)

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Vinnie Colaiuta

Self (archive footage)

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Diva Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Sandi Freeman

Self (archive footage)

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Mike Douglas

Self (archive footage)

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Norman Seeff

Self (archive footage)

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David Harrington

Self

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Robin Denselow

Self (archive footage)

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Kent Nagano

Self (archive footage)

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David Letterman

Self (archive footage)

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Ahmet Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Pierre Boulez

Self (archive footage)

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David Raksin

Self (archive footage)

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Ted Koppel

Self (archive footage)

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Susan Baker

Self - PMRC Member (archive footage)

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Arsenio Hall

Self (archive footage)

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Gary Iskowitz

Self (voice)

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David Dondorf

Self - Music Engineer (voice)

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Kathleen Sullivan

Self (archive footage)

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Václav Havel

Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)

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Jamie Gangel

Self (archive footage)

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Ensemble Modern

Themselves (archive footage)

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Arthur Brown

Self (archive footage)

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Adam Curry

Self

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Hank Dutt

Self

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Buzz Gardner

Self (archive footage)

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Al Gore

Self (archive footage)

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Tipper Gore

Self (archive footage)

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David Harrington

Self (archive footage)

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Brian Jones

Self (archive footage)

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John Lofton

Self (archive footage)

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Miss Mercy

Self (archive footage)

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John Sherba

Self

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Bill Wyman

Self (archive footage)

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Sunny Yang

Self

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Charles Manson

Self (archive footage)

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