• Director(s)

    Mark Moormann

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    17/07/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Music

  • Approx. running minutes

    94m

  • Cast

    Peter Gallagher, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens

Film

The Day The Music Died

images of real dead bodies, drug misuse

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED is a documentary about the making of Don McLean’s song ‘American Pie’ and its enduring popularity.…

THE DAY THE MUSIC DIED is a documentary about the making of Don McLean’s song ‘American Pie’ and its enduring popularity.

drugs
There is brief use of 1960s footage of people smoking joints.
injury detail
We see brief black-and-white still images of the wreckage resulting from the 1959 plane crash which killed rockstars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, along with their pilot. A dead body can be seen sprawled in the foreground of the image, though there is no visible blood or wound detail.
additional issues
We see a black-and-white still image of police dragging a protester along the ground by his shirt, without visible injuries, in addition to archive footage of soldiers firing guns. There are mild references to death and bereavement, including a sequence in which Ritchie Valens’s sister becomes tearful as she recalls being told that her brother had died. Bad language includes ‘ass’ and ‘God’. There are also infrequent mild sex references.

  • Director(s)

    Mark Moormann

  • Production Year

    2022

  • Release date

    17/07/2022

  • Genre(s)

    Documentary, Music

  • Approx. running minutes

    94m

  • Cast

    Peter Gallagher, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens

images of real dead bodies, drug misuse
Classified Date:
12/07/2022
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
National Amusements UK Ltd
drugs
There is brief use of 1960s footage of people smoking joints.
injury detail
We see brief black-and-white still images of the wreckage resulting from the 1959 plane crash which killed rockstars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, along with their pilot. A dead body can be seen sprawled in the foreground of the image, though there is no visible blood or wound detail.
additional issues
We see a black-and-white still image of police dragging a protester along the ground by his shirt, without visible injuries, in addition to archive footage of soldiers firing guns. There are mild references to death and bereavement, including a sequence in which Ritchie Valens’s sister becomes tearful as she recalls being told that her brother had died. Bad language includes ‘ass’ and ‘God’. There are also infrequent mild sex references.

  • Classified date

    12/07/2022

  • Language

    English