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Documentaries · 110
- 1974 The Year the Grateful Dead Broke Down to Build Back Up
- 42 Shows in 30 Years The Deads Most Avoided Song
- A Con Man, Crab Sandwiches, and the Leanest Grateful Dead
- Barlows Cowboy Tales How a Wyoming Rancher Helped Shape a New Era For The Dead
- Bob Weir Frankie Weir Azzara and the Real Story Behind Sugar Magnolia
- Bob Weir Has Died What Happens to the Grateful Dead Now
- Bob Weirs Legacy The Role That Made the Grateful Dead Possible
- Box of Rain The Inside Story of The Grateful Deads Last Words Together
- Brent Mydland and the Year the Deads Sound Was Reborn
- Dan Healy Changed the Deads Sound Then Turned Tapers Into a System
- Dark Stars Transformation From 1968 Single to Grateful Deads Live Show Classic
- Dead and Company Sphere Some Hated It I Went Anyway
- December 15 1986 The Most Important Show In Grateful Dead History
- Donna Jean Godchauxs Legacy From Muscle Shoals to the Grateful Dead
- From a Princeton Basement to 70000 at Soldier Field
- Grateful Dead at MIT The Amazing Untold Story of Their 1970 Free Concert
- Grateful Dead Never "Played" The Same Song Twice
- Grateful Dead Vs Allman Brothers What Really Happened At Fillmore East In 1970
- Grateful Deads First Tape Is a Myth
- Grateful Deads Friend of the Devil The Unexpected Journey Behind the Iconic Song
- Hip Economics and Ammo Cases Untold Story of The Music Never Stopped
- His Father Swore on a Bible Then Robbed the Grateful Dead
- How a 1930s Prison Blues Song Became A Grateful Dead Anthem I Know You Rider
- How a Failed Bob Dylan Tour Rewrote One of His Most Famous Songs
- How Bill Graham Changed The Dead Forever
- How Bob Marleys Rejection Led To Grateful Deads Iconic Scarlet Begonias
- How Bob Weir Went From Kid Brother To The Boss
- How Deadheads Built the Internet The Grateful Deads Tech Legacy
- How Deadheads Created Social Networks Decades Before Facebook
- How Europe 72 Rescued the Grateful Dead Greatest Live Album Of All Time
- How Janis Joplin Lit Up the Grateful Dead
- How Ken Keseys Suicide Changed The Grateful Dead Changed Forever
- How LSD and the Acid Tests Created the Grateful Deads Iconic Sound
- How Neal Cassady Invented the Grateful Dead
- How Not Fade Away Became the Deads Most Powerful Promise
- How Owsley Bear Stanleys LSD Shaped the Grateful Deads Sound
- How Psychedelic Chaos Created American Classics The Grateful Dead in 1970
- How the Allman Brothers Survived the Unsurvivable At Watkins Glen
- How the Grateful Dead Made Bill Walton an NBA Champion
- How Woodstocks Worst Set Created the Grateful Deads Empire
- It Wasn't the Drugs That Pushed Keith Godchaux Out
- Jerry Garcia Could Never Walk Away And It Killed Him
- Jerry Garcias 1986 Coma and The Grateful Dead Reborn
- Jerry Garcias Guitar Tells You What Drug He Was On
- Jerry Garcias Last Recording Wasnt with the Grateful Dead
- Owsley Stanley Gave the Dead Everything At a Price
- Owsleys Ultimatum The Grateful Deads 1970 Breaking Point
- Phil Lesh Loved the Wall The DRINKING Started in 75
- Phil Lesh Was the Hardest Man in the Dead
- Pigpen Started the Grateful Dead. LSD Ended That.
- Pigpen Wasnt Crazy He Was the Point
- Pigpens Myth Was Loud The Reality Was That He Held the Dead Together
- Robert Hunter Stopped Touring Food Fights 10 Commandments
- Robert Hunter Wrote It for Jerry. Then Denied It.
- Shakedown Street The Album That Failed at Being Mainstream and Created a Movement
- Skull and Roses How Losing the Name War Won the Dead Everything
- The 5000 Check That Put Lithuania on the Map
- The Album Robert Hunter Tried To Erase
- The Crew That Kept the Grateful Dead Alive When Everything Was at Risk
- The Crowd Culture That Drives The Grateful Dead and Phish
- The Dead's Keyboard Chair "Cursed" Four Men. Not Him.
- The Folk And Jug Band Origins Behind The Grateful Dead
- The Ghost Of Pigpen
- The Grateful Dead Cover That Shouldnt Work But Absolutely Does
- The Grateful Dead Didnt Leave 710 Ashbury They Were Pushed Out
- The Grateful Dead Hid an 8-Year Reckoning in Plain Sight
- The Grateful Dead on The Festival Express
- The Grateful Dead Song Born from an ACID Nightmare
- The Grateful Dead Song Jerry Garcia Thought He Ruined
- The Grateful Deads First Bassist Lasted Only 4 Shows
- The Grateful Deads Keyboard Chair Was Designed to Kill
- The Grateful Deads Most Debated 20 Minutes
- The Impossible Job Replacing Jerry Garcia
- The Jerry Garcia And Duane Allman Paradox
- The Merl Saunders and Jerry Garcia Story Two Legends One Unforgettable Sound
- The Messy Truth About Keith Godchauxs Exit
- The Mistake That Killed Jimi Hendrix and Saved the Grateful Dead
- The Most Important Venue In a Post Jerry World
- The Most Radical Thing Robert Hunter Ever Refused
- The MOTOWN Obsession Jerry Garcia Hid in Plain Sight
- The Night That Changed The Grateful Dead Forever
- The Night The Dead Collaborated With The Sufi Choir 1971 Performance Lost for 50 Years
- The Night the Grateful Dead Played a Lunar Eclipse in Egypt
- The Night the Grateful Dead Secretly Played the Tiny Club Where the Jerry Garcia Band Was Born
- The Real Story Behind Casey Jones Grateful Deads Cautionary Tale
- The Sober Promise Garcia Sang 391 Times
- The Song That Taught the Dead How to Jam Anything
- The Truth Behind The Grateful Deads Dancing Bears The Legacy of Owsley Bear Stanley
- The Two Nights That Made Europe 72 And Almost Killed It
- The Woman Who Saved the Grateful Deads Legacy
- They Tried to Fire Bob Weir The Strange 1968 Grateful Dead Tale
- Truckin by Grateful Dead The Story Behind Americas National Treasure
- Warren Haynes Had to be Jerry Garcia and Duane Allman In the Same Year
- Watkins Glen 73 The Historic Festival That Beat Woodstock in Size and Spirit
- When Jerry Garcia Played Two Bands every Night The New Riders Experiment
- When the CIA Lost Control MK-ULTRA and The Grateful Dead
- Why Altamont Changed the Grateful Dead Forever
- Why Hardcore Punk Loved the Dead Henry Rollins and The 1969 Grateful Dead
- Why Jerry Garcia Never Turned On the Hells Angels
- Why Jerrys Favorite Guitar Player Walked Away from the Dead
- Why The Dead Took 7 Years To Rise Again
- Why the Grateful Dead Needed Two Drummers The Rhythm Devils Origin Story
- Why The Grateful Dead Will Never Die
- Why the Grateful Deads Early Studio Albums Failed and Live Music Won
- Brent Mydland and the Rule No One Could Break
- Vince Welnick Never Had a Chance With the Dead
- MK-Ultra Was The CIA's Acid Brothel in San Francisco
- How Persian Heroin Snuck Past The Grateful Dead's Rules
- The Grateful Dead Couldn't Find This Song a Home
- The Missing Link Between Beats and Hippies
Shorts · 15
- Bruce Hornsby Tells a Funny Dead Head Story on Arsenio Hall
- Buddy Cage On Replacing Jerry Garcia
- Grateful Dead and Fame Has Success Spoiled The Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia Band Interview
- Grateful Dead Casey Kasem Interview Making Music Like a Term Paper
- Grateful Dead members open up about their plans before bassist Phil Leshs death
- Grateful Deads Friend of the Devil The Most Covered Song In Dead History
- Jerry Garcia On His Musical Inspiration
- John Mayer and Bob Weir On Jerry Garcia
- Ken Kesey and Mountain Girl On Keseys Arrest
- Phil and Grahame Lesh Uncover Rare Friend of The Devil Verse
- The Grateful Dead Song Born from an ACID Nightmare
- The Grateful Deads Indian Classical Secret
- The Many Voices of Not Fade Away Deads Most Powerful Promise
- The Night Fans Broke The Grateful Deads Trust System
- The Shakedown Archives Trailer