Standing in the Shadows of Motown

Aged musicians reunited amid hilarious anecdotes, dramatic reconstructions and archive footage make a joyful noise in this tuneful, tearful, wonderful story of Motown's unsung house band.

...Standing in the Shadows of Motown invites pleasure and discernment in listening.

...watching the doc feels a lot like leafing through a dusty scrapbook and warmly remembering good times.

More than an overdue celebration of the Funk Brothers, it’s a revelatory aural journey that gets you to hear something you’ve always known without quite realizing it: that the magic of the Motown sound was, quite literally, its sound...