Roger Waters: The Wall
Roger Waters transforms Pink Floyd’s The Wall into a monumental concert documentary where rock spectacle, political imagery, and personal grief collide.
Overview
Experience the iconic live performance that redefined concert films, showcasing a musical journey through the mind of a rock legend.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- visceral
- melancholic
- politically charged
- concert night
- classic rock deep dive
What critics said
Critics broadly celebrated the film as an exceptionally immersive and visually ambitious document of Roger Waters’s The Wall performance.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Roger Waters performs The Wall amid elaborate staging, projections, props, and large-scale production design.
The concert material is interwoven with Roger Waters’s personal perspective on the album and its emotional history.
The Wall’s songs and visuals foreground war, loss, political authority, and emotional isolation.
The performance transforms the album’s recurring walls, military imagery, and surreal symbols into an immersive visual environment.
Films like Roger Waters: The Wall, and why
Pink Floyd: Pulse
music documentary built around an immersive live performance and the personal meaning of a landmark rock album
The Last Waltz
concert documentary combining elaborate staging, musicianship, and intimate artist commentary
Stop Making Sense
ambitious rock concert film whose theatrical spectacle is inseparable from the performer’s autobiographical themes
Movie Details
- Directors
- Sean Evans, Roger Waters
- Release Date
- 2014-09-29
- Runtime
- 133 min
- Rating
- 8.0 / 10 (177)
Cast
- Roger Waters
- Dave Kilminster
- Graham Broad
- Snowy White
- Jon Carin
Where to watch in United States
- Rent
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
- Buy
- Google Play Movies, YouTube
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is Roger Waters: The Wall about?
- Roger Waters transforms Pink Floyd’s The Wall into a monumental concert documentary where rock spectacle, political imagery, and personal grief collide.
- What is Roger Waters: The Wall like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Roger Waters: The Wall as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Roger Waters: The Wall violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Roger Waters: The Wall as mild.
- What did critics think of Roger Waters: The Wall?
- Critics broadly celebrated the film as an exceptionally immersive and visually ambitious document of Roger Waters’s The Wall performance.
- Which films are like Roger Waters: The Wall?
- Films with a similar feel include Pink Floyd: Pulse, The Last Waltz, and Stop Making Sense.
- How long is Roger Waters: The Wall?
- Roger Waters: The Wall runs 133 minutes.
- Where can I watch Roger Waters: The Wall?
- In United States, Roger Waters: The Wall is available to rent or buy from Google Play Movies, YouTube.
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