Directed by award-winning documentary filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev (“Happy Valley,” “The Tillman Story”) with Martin Scorsese serving as executive producer, Long Strange Trip brings together never-before-seen performance footage, vintage interviews, and other candid moments unearthed from the Grateful Dead’s vast vaults.
The film also includes newly captured conversations with Mickey, Bill, Phil, and Bob, as well as many other characters and pranksters from the Dead universe.
Long Strange Trip was nominated for the “Best Music Film” Grammy® Award and was also one of 15 films shortlisted for the Academy Awards® “Best Documentary Feature”. The film was widely praised by fans and the critics alike, including the Los Angeles Times, which called it “One of the most engrossing rock docs ever made”.