Johnny Cash: American Rebel (2015)

8.2/10 86 min Documentary Music

Overview

Johnny Cash: American Rebel is built around 12 essential Johnny Cash tracks spanning four decades that each deliver the passion, musicality and messages against war, injustice, racism and prejudice, including “Folsom Prison Blues,” “Jackson,” “San Quentin,” “Man in Black,” “Sunday Morning Coming Down,” “Ring of Fire” and “Hurt.” Each song illustrates a chapter in his life, as well the story of an ever-changing America from the 1950s to modern day, as told through interviews, archival concert footage, photographs and personal artifacts from the Cash family.

Cast

Johnny Cash

Self (archive footage)

Kris Kristofferson

Self

Willie Nelson

Self

Sheryl Crow

Self

Kid Rock

Self

June Carter Cash

Self (archive footage)

John Mellencamp

Self

Merle Haggard

Self

Rick Rubin

Self

John Carter Cash

Self

Rosanne Cash

Self

Bob Dylan

Self (archive photos/footage)

Kirk Douglas

Self (archive photo)

Clive Davis

Self

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