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.

Where to watch it in Canada

Free (legal)

Hoopla

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Cast

Frank Zappa

Self (archive footage)

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Mike Keneally

Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

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)

Edgard Varèse

Self (archive footage)

Don Van Vliet

Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)

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The Mothers of Invention

Themselves (archive footage)

Frank Zappa — Self (archive footage)

Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed album covers. Zappa produced almost all of the more tha

Pamela Des Barres — Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Pamela Des Barres is an actress and writer, but is most famous as a rock 'n roll groupie, starting in the late 1960's on Hollywood's Sunset Strip, the heart of rock 'n roll in Los Angeles. Pamela had relationships with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Nick St. Nicholas, Noel Redding, Jim Morrison, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, Waylon Jennings, and actors Brandon deWilde, Michael Richards, Woody