Directed by
Questlove | ... | (as Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson) |
Cast (in credits order)
Produced by
Jody Allen | ... | executive producer |
Cora Atkinson | ... | co-producer |
Inuka Bacote-Capiga | ... | co-producer |
David Barse | ... | executive producer |
Ashley Bembry-Kaintuck | ... | associate producer |
Novena Carmel | ... | coordinating segment producer |
Rocky Collins | ... | executive producer |
Shannon Dill | ... | production executive: Concordia Studio (uncredited) |
David Dinerstein | ... | producer (p.g.a.) |
Ron Eisenberg | ... | executive producer |
Robert Fyvolent | ... | producer (p.g.a.) |
Jannat Gargi | ... | executive producer |
Bryan Greene | ... | consulting producer |
Davis Guggenheim | ... | executive producer |
Marie Therese Guirgis | ... | executive producer |
Brendan Hermes | ... | executive producer: Outpost Digital NY |
Beth Hubbard | ... | executive producer |
Cherice Hunt | ... | associate producer |
Jen Isaacson | ... | executive producer |
Sheila C. Johnson | ... | executive producer |
Ruth Johnston | ... | executive producer |
Jon Kamen | ... | executive producer |
Julia Lewis | ... | archival associate producer |
Aimee Link | ... | supervising producer: Vulcan Productions |
Jeffrey Lurie | ... | executive producer |
Lizzy McGlynn | ... | archival producer |
Joseph Patel | ... | producer (p.g.a.) |
Laurene Powell-Jobs | ... | executive producer (as Laurence Powell Jobs) |
Questlove | ... | executive producer (as Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson) |
Jonathan Silberberg | ... | co-executive producer |
Dave Sirulnick | ... | executive producer |
Nicole Stott | ... | co-executive producer |
Gregory A. Thomson | ... | co-producer |
James Uminowicz | ... | senior producer: Outpost Digital NY |
Zarah Zohlman | ... | associate producer |
Cinematography by
Shawn Peters |
Editing by
Joshua L Pearson | ... | (as Joshua L. Pearson) |
Art Direction by
Lauren Nikrooz | ||
Mark Thompson |
Makeup Department
Sunny Bourgeois | ... | hair stylist (as Sunny J. Bourgeois) / makeup artist (as Sunny J. Bourgeois) |
Nicola David | ... | hair stylist / makeup artist |
Robyn Fisher | ... | hair stylist / makeup artist |
Viola Nicholson | ... | hair stylist / makeup artist |
Production Management
Corey DeStefano | ... | production manager |
Sarah Hume | ... | production manager: Vulcan Productions |
Constantina Konugres | ... | production supervisor: RadicalMedia |
Kim Nyhous | ... | executive in charge of production: Vulcan Productions (as Kimberly Nyhous) |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Joseph Patel | ... | second unit director |
Art Department
Kevin Mazile | ... | art assistant |
Frank W. Miller Jr. | ... | art direction consultant (as Frank William Miller Jr.) |
Luis Vasquez | ... | art assistant |
Sound Department
Justine Baker | ... | Director commentary recordist |
Alan Chow | ... | sound mixer |
Dennis Dembeck | ... | mix technician |
Robert Fernandez | ... | additional re-recording mixer: Harbor (as Rob Fernandez) |
Aisha Hallgren | ... | sound mixer |
Dennis Hamlin | ... | sound mixer |
Paul Hsu | ... | re-recording mixer: CS Inc., NYC |
Jiho Kim | ... | assistant sound editor |
Rich Mach | ... | sound mixer |
Paul Massey | ... | additional re-recording mixer: Fox Studio Lot, LLC |
Mike Stahr | ... | sound mixer |
Emily Strong | ... | sound mixer |
Visual Effects by
Mark Thompson | ... | motion graphics |
Camera and Electrical Department
Rob Agulo | ... | assistant camera (as Robert Agulo) |
Alexander Ashe | ... | additional camera / gaffer |
Jordan Bell | ... | key grip |
Christian Cashmir | ... | additional camera |
Bryant Fisher | ... | additional camera |
Rommel Genciana | ... | gaffer |
Kate Glicksberg | ... | still photographer |
Wayne A. Goring | ... | additional camera (as Wayne Goring) |
Jamezz Hampton | ... | key grip |
J'mme Love | ... | assistant camera |
Jaime Medrano Jr. | ... | assistant camera |
Matt Noll | ... | additional camera |
Charley Parker | ... | assistant camera |
Camrin Petramale | ... | gaffer |
Lorenzo Porras | ... | assistant camera |
Ezra Riley | ... | assistant camera |
Pierce Robinson | ... | assistant camera |
Sean Rochau | ... | assistant camera |
Sean Slattery | ... | key grip |
Robert Smith | ... | key grip |
Miles Watanabe | ... | gaffer |
Stefan Weinberger | ... | additional camera |
Pat Shahabian | ... | additional cinematography (uncredited) |
Ted Snow | ... | assistant camera (uncredited) / digital imaging technician (uncredited) |
Jenise Whitehead | ... | digital loader: Los Angeles (uncredited) |
Casting Department
Calvin Richard Evans Watson | ... | casting (uncredited) |
Editorial Department
Yohance Brown | ... | colorist |
Cooper Conley-Currier | ... | assistant editor |
Sante Ferrante | ... | machine room operator: Outpost Digital NY |
Colin Fowler | ... | lead assistant editor |
Michael Goldman | ... | assistant engineer: Outpost Digital NY |
Lewis Hedley-Noble | ... | post engineer: Outpost Digital NY |
Alexander Santoro | ... | chief technical engineer: Outpost Digital NY |
Timothy Ziegler | ... | on-line editor |
Devon Andrew Hubner | ... | post production supervisor (uncredited) |
Location Management
Brett Frana | ... | supervising location manager (uncredited) |
Music Department
Thomas Cavanaugh | ... | Music Business & Legal Affairs |
Jimmy Douglass | ... | music mixer |
Ian Herbert | ... | music coordinator |
Randall Poster | ... | music supervisor |
Thomas Cavanaugh | ... | music business & legal affairs (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Lottie Abrahams | ... | production assistant |
Sofia Adams | ... | production assistant |
Daniel Alvarado | ... | transcriber |
Paul Bacani | ... | production assistant |
Jason Beekman | ... | senior production counsel: RadicalMedia |
Meredith Bennett | ... | executive in charge of operations: RadicalMedia |
David Boyle | ... | Distribution Counsel: 69 harlem music |
Steven Ames Brown | ... | archival courtesy of |
Nancy Buirski | ... | special advisor |
Patrick A. Burns | ... | archival courtesy of: The New York Times/Redux |
Lisa Callif | ... | production counsel |
Doug Coblens | ... | business & legal affairs / business & legal affairs: Vulcan Productions |
Rebecca Cohen | ... | production accountant: RadicalMedia |
Andrea Dramer | ... | production coordinator: Vulcan Productions |
Kylee Floodman | ... | executive assistant: Frank Scherma, RadicalMedia |
Miguel Garzon Martinez | ... | production assistant |
Lior Haas | ... | production counsel: RadicalMedia |
Eric Holtz | ... | production controller: RadicalMedia |
Donal Holway | ... | archival courtesy of: The New York Times/Redux (as Donal F. Holway) |
Anthony K. Hyatt | ... | Senior Producer EPK: SunnyBoy Entertainment |
Jai Jacob | ... | production assistant |
Niki Kazakos | ... | head of communications: RadicalMedia |
Hannah Macdonald | ... | post producer: Outpost Digital NY |
Samuel McQueen | ... | media manager |
Parul Moses | ... | contracts manager: business and legal affairs, RadicalMedia |
Samantha Mustari | ... | executive assistant: Dave Sirulnick and Meredith Bennett, RadicalMedia |
Nadine Ng | ... | archival assistant |
Anna Ragland | ... | production assistant |
Maurice Schechter | ... | archival media restoration |
Frank Scherma | ... | president: RadicalMedia |
Bill Seery | ... | archival media restoration |
Ted Snow | ... | media manager |
Marcin J. Sobczak | ... | international publicity & pr |
Annie Thomas | ... | executive assistant: Jon Kamen, RadicalMedia |
Connor Townsend | ... | production assistant |
Jenise Whitehead | ... | media manager |
Arniesha Williams | ... | post producer: Outpost Digital NY |
Cyrus Wu | ... | production assistant |
Julian Zentner | ... | production assistant |
Star Tyner | ... | financing counsel: Concordia Studio (uncredited) |
Thanks
Judy Aley | ... | special thanks |
Lee Andrews | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Stephanie Andrews | ... | special thanks |
Fiona Apple | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Carl Atkinson | ... | special thanks |
Melody Atkinson | ... | special thanks |
Ayanna Ayers | ... | special thanks |
Leo Barse | ... | special thanks / thanks |
Zenya Bashford | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Kari Bauce | ... | special thanks |
Gina Belafonte | ... | special thanks |
Ardenia Brown | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Gene Brown | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Damon Bryson | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Timothy Anne Burnside | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Imhotep Gary Byrd | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Dave Chappelle | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Brian Coleman | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Phonte Coleman | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Victoria S. Cook | ... | special thanks (as Victoria Cook) |
Matt Cornell | ... | special thanks |
Stuart Cosgrove | ... | special thanks |
John B. Crye | ... | special thanks (as John Crye) |
Tina D'Orazio | ... | special thanks |
Maggie Dakin | ... | special thanks |
Hillary Dann | ... | special thanks |
Maxwell Dartey | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Lily De Jong | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Ileana Diaz | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Shannon Dill | ... | special thanks |
Alison Dinerstein | ... | special thanks |
Sam Dinerstein | ... | special thanks |
Zoe Dinerstein | ... | special thanks |
Carleen Donovan | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Kirk Douglas | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Ava DuVernay | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Michael Eric Dyson | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Billy Eisenberg | ... | special thanks |
Deborah Eisenberg | ... | special thanks |
Stro Elliot | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Stro Elliott) |
Erika Elliott | ... | special thanks |
Fab 5 Freddy | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Fab Five Freddy) |
Jimmy Fallon | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as James T. Fallon) |
Tina Farris | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Brittany Fyvolent | ... | special thanks |
Joel Fyvolent | ... | special thanks |
Paul Fyvolent | ... | special thanks |
Sekou Gathers | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Janina Gavankar | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Shawn Gee | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Duke Gerrone | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Alex Gibney | ... | special thanks |
Wendy Goldstein | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
James 'Kamal' Gray | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Kamal Gray) |
William Greaves | ... | special thanks |
Ben Greenman | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
David Guy | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Dave Guy) |
James Harris III | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Grace Harry | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Ian Hendrickson-Smith | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Chester Higgins Jr. | ... | special thanks (as Chester Higgins) |
Lester House | ... | special thanks |
Michael Howe | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
J-Zone | ... | special thanks (as Jay 'J-Zone' Mumford) |
Rodney Jean | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Sean Jefferson | ... | special thanks |
Bill Johnson | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Bob Johnson | ... | special thanks |
Ruwan Karu | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Mark Kelley | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Tony Lawrence | ... | dedicatee: deepest love and gratitude for always putting on for his community |
Leaf | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Spike Lee | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Bela Levin | ... | special thanks |
Miles Marshall Lewis | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Demi Lovato | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Neal Ludevig | ... | special thanks |
Kirkland Lynch | ... | special thanks (as Kirkland Alexander) |
Steven Mandel | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Christian McBride | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Elena McKay | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Raiden McLean | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Keith McPhee | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
John Michael Measells | ... | special thanks |
Philip Michelson | ... | special thanks |
Jake Morelli | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Gerardo Moreno | ... | special thanks |
Tenisha Myles | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Dahveed Nelson | ... | special thanks |
Mercedes Nichols | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Rakim Nichols | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Richard Nichols | ... | dedicatee |
Munir Nuriddin | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Abby O'Neill | ... | special thanks |
Kwame Onwuachi | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Mahesh Patel | ... | special thanks |
Prafulla Patel | ... | special thanks |
Kieran Patel-Jarrett | ... | special thanks |
Steven Pearl | ... | special thanks |
Steven Pearl | ... | special thanks |
Rebecca Pietri | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Eshan Ponnadurai | ... | special thanks |
James Poyser | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Rebecca Proudfoot | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Richard Pzena | ... | special thanks |
Gridley Quihuis | ... | special thanks |
Mark Reilly | ... | special thanks |
Michael Reinart | ... | special thanks |
Jason Resnick | ... | special thanks |
Brenda Robinson | ... | special thanks |
Sandy Rondomski | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Steven Rosenblum | ... | special thanks (as Steve Rosenblum) |
Alexis Rosenzweig | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Dante Ross | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Dante 'The Scrub' Ross) |
Brad Rubens | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Tom Sarig | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
David Schneiderman | ... | special thanks |
Bill Sherman | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Jurnee Smollett | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Laiya St Clair | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Al Staehely | ... | special thanks |
Maisha Stephens-Teacher | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Wyatt Stone | ... | special thanks |
Keisha Sutton | ... | special thanks |
Donn Thompson | ... | would like to thank: Questlove (as Donn Thompson Morelli) |
Jacqueline Thompson | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Vikki Tobak | ... | special thanks |
Tariq Trotter | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Hal Tulchin | ... | special thanks: whose work and dream made this film possible |
Janine Tulchin | ... | special thanks |
Steve Walker | ... | special thanks |
Larry Ward | ... | special thanks |
Harry Weinger | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Dawn White | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
David Zander | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Lauren Zander | ... | would like to thank: Questlove |
Susan Zirinsky | ... | special thanks |