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David Byrne (/bɜːrn/; born 14 May 1952) is a Scottish-American musician, writer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He was a founding member, principal songwriter, lead singer, and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads.
Byrne has released solo recordings and worked with various media, including film, photography, opera, fiction, and non-fiction. He has received an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, a Special Tony Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and he is an inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as part of Talking Heads.
Most Popular David Byrne Trailers
Total trailers found: 98
24 March 2022
An aging Chinese immigrant is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what's important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes.
27 November 2018
Documentary made on the set of David Byrne's 1986 film TRUE STORIES.
03 September 1986
Two Moon July was a multidisciplinary event that featured experimental video, film, visual art, performance and music in a theatrical framework.
19 April 2001
Lou Reed narrates this Television special that takes a look back at the beginnings of the punk rock movements in New York & England, the underground punk scenes in the 70's & 80's, and the punk resurgence in the 90's.
22 October 2019
Second MTV Unplugged album of Café Tacvba.
24 April 2009
An East Village performance space fought against the Bowery homeless shelter who threatened to shut them down.
19 October 1984
A concert film documenting Talking Heads at the height of their popularity, on tour for their 1983 album "Speaking in Tongues.
01 January 1990
This half-hour documentary was screened on Channel 4 in 1989. Charlie Gillett is in conversation with David Byrne and Susan Young.
17 May 2019
When US border agents fired tear gas grenades at civilians in November 2018, photographs showed that many of those grenades were manufactured by the Safariland Group, one of the world’s major manufacturers of so-called ‘less-lethal munitions’.
22 January 2016
A true crime concert doc about David Byrne and two escaped convicts.
04 October 1987
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.
17 October 2025
When the meanest, nastiest villains pull a trick to take over their town, two brave children team up with a family of magical animals to bring them down.
01 January 1995
In this 1995 made-for television biopic, see legendary musician and filmmaker Ivan Kral as he made music history.
15 January 1986
The 1986 film version of the theatrical production "Dead End Kids" by the NYC avant-garde theatre group The Mabou Mines.
24 July 2009
Wandering Heart intimately follows Caetano from São Paulo to New York and Japan, during the release of his first album recorded solely in English.
30 August 2002
A look at "rock and roll" and other pop music based film of the 1970s.
18 October 1998
Meet the match made in pop heaven, when the singer-songwriter and the 1960s hitmaking composer collaborated on the 1998 album Painted From Memory, featuring the GRAMMY Award-winning song “I Still Have That Other Girl.
11 October 2009
This documentary from filmmaker Guto Barra takes you beyond the 1960s bossa nova hit "The Girl from Ipanema" to explore how samba, Brazilectro and other Brazilian music styles have long captivated audiences and influenced musicians around the world.
15 November 2004
The Pogues playing on St. Patrick's Day in London's Town and Country serves to remind fans why we loved the band and possibly why their breakup was inevitable.
24 June 2008
Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and more.
09 December 1989
Interviews with personalities including John Mellencamp, Spike Lee, Lou Reed, Roseanne Barr, David Byrne, George Michael and more, as they reflect on the 1980s.
01 October 1994
The story of Frieda, a young girl growing up in strife-torn late 1960's Derry, and her attempts to have a normal adolescence despite the violence which surrounds her.
26 September 2003
A young drifter working on a river barge disrupts his employers' lives while hiding the fact that he knows more about a dead woman found in the river than he admits.
28 July 2008
A host of personalities reminisce about the life and work of songwriter, lawyer, and congressman Humberto Teixeira — aka "Baião Doctor" — the author of such classic Brazilian popular songs as "Asa Branca".
14 February 2025
Live from Radio City Music Hall, witness the concert of a lifetime with a star-studded lineup bringing together legendary Saturday Night Live hall-of-famers, iconic guests and surprise musical performances.
19 August 1988
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world.
12 December 2014
550 artists were interviewed over ten years. At some point during those interviews, they were asked a question and told to answer with one word only.
12 September 1991
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who enlist her help to take the money to a drop in Paris.
30 July 2004
Fired from his job, a former executive turns to impregnating wealthy lesbians for profit.
24 August 2011
A bored, retired rock star living in Ireland sets out to find his dead father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.
25 October 2002
Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie.
04 March 2016
Werner Herzog's exploration of the Internet and the connected world.
09 July 2007
New York City, 1977 - It was a time when the city had fallen into decay, with too few jobs, money, police, schools, and social services.
31 March 1981
Stock footage edited with music to comment on American culture.
03 August 2005
From 1978 to 1982, Glenn O'Brien hosted a New York city public access cable TV show called TV Party. Co-hosted by Chris Stein, from Blondie, and directed by filmmaker Amos Poe, the hour long show took television where it had never gone before: to the edge of civility and "sub-realism" as Glenn would put it.
10 September 2020
A filmed version of David Byrne's Broadway show, a unifying musical celebration that inspires audiences to connect to each other and to the global community.
27 January 2025
Untold stories behind the culture-defining and newsmaking musical performances, sketches and cameos of the past 50 years.
07 November 1986
A free-spirited woman "kidnaps" a yuppie for a weekend of adventure. But the fun quickly takes a dangerous turn when her ex-con husband shows up.
16 June 2013
Fatherhood has proved a great subject for a variety of artists - some celebratory, some conflicted, but all inspired by what dad does and doesn't do.
24 January 2016
Director Spike Lee chronicles Michael Jackson's early rise to fame.
03 January 2017
A brief history of Talking Heads (and how they got here!)
14 November 1998
Tori Amos performs. Her set includes "iieee," "Past the Mission," "Caught a Lite Sneeze" and "The Waitress.
24 April 2023
A chaotic intervention. An action-packed stay in rehab. After a weird couple of years, John Mulaney comes out swinging in his return to the stage.
26 October 1988
When his best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray Macklin becomes a man obsessed with his own mortality.
24 December 2019
John Mulaney and his kid pals tackle existential topics for all ages with catchy songs, comedy sketches and special guests in a nostalgic variety special.
22 September 1989
Celebrities and creatives -- including musician David Byrne, performance artist Spalding Gray, comedian Sandra Bernhard, radical activist Abbie Hoffman, and poet Allen Ginsberg-- recall their earliest sexual experiences.
12 June 1981
In his first collaboration with David Byrne and Brian Eno, Conner used footage from educational films to create a rhythmically austere image-track for music from their pioneering “sampling” album “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” (1981).
05 October 2018
SETLIST: 01. Here, 02. Lazy, 03. I Zimbra (Talking Heads song), 04. Slippery People (Talking Heads song), 05.
11 May 2012
Paul Simon returns to South Africa to explore the incredible journey of his historic Graceland album, including the political backlash he received for allegedly breaking the UN cultural boycott of South Africa designed to end the Apartheid regime.
10 October 1986
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
10 March 2019
A rural American town suffering economically from factory closures finds an unconventional route to recovery with the help of MASS MoCA.
08 April 2025
Stanley Nelson's syncopated voyage through the history of funk music, from early roots to 1970s urban funk and beyond.
06 September 1998
A famous jazz saxophonist's life is forever changed after he is accidentally shot.
01 December 1990
This music special is dedicated to dispelling the prejudices associated with the HIV infection and raising money for AIDS research and relief.
01 January 1982
Seamlessly blending elements of movement and music, Twyla Tharp choreographs a rock 'n' roll dance spectacular, set to a score by former Talking Heads front man David Byrne.
27 November 2018
The making of a film about a bunch of people in Virgil, Texas.
08 October 2019
Fringe even in the fringe world of music of the 70's - Terry Allen is an artist in a class of his own.
11 November 2003
"(Nothing But) Flowers" (Byrne, Chris Frantz, Jerry Harrison, Tina Weymouth) "And She Was" "Once in a Lifetime" (Byrne, Brian Eno, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) "God's Child" "The Great Intoxication" "Un Di Felice" (Giuseppe Verdi) "The Revolution" "Sax and Violins" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" (Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth) "What a Day That Was" "Like Humans Do" "U.
02 October 2007
This show, captured on November 28, 2001, was hailed by critics as Byrne's best work in years, and his performance on the Austin City Limits stage shows why.
