“We Want The Funk!” premieres on PBS’s “Independent Lens” on Tuesday, April 1. Through its 82 minutes, it explores the music of legends such as James Brown, Sly Stone and George Clinton ...

We Want the Funk!, an expansive, emotive, ... In the mid-1960s, George Clinton was working as a staff songwriter at Motown and had a vocal group called The Parliaments.

We Want the Funk!, an expansive, emotive, ... In the mid-1960s, George Clinton was working as a staff songwriter at Motown and had a vocal group called The Parliaments.

Filmmakers Stanley Nelson Jr. and Nicole London didn’t want to do a typical documentary on funk music. What they made is a fun, interesting, entertaining ride through the genre.

Filmmaker Stanley Nelson Jr. had just premiered his 2019 “Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool” at the Sundance Film Festival when, as he was out on the dance floor, the topic of his next film came up. “We ...