Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story (2007)

Stax Records began when a conservative white banker purchased a hall in downtown Memphis with the intention of recording bluegrass. It quickly became a recording studio for rhythm and blues attracting giants of R&B such as Booker T. and the MGs, Otis Redding, Sam & Dave. Stax became the funky alternative to Motown, but everything fell apart in 1967 when Otis died in a plane crash aged 27. The fall was compounded by Martin Luther King's 1968 assassination at a local motel and the belated discovery that Stax didn't own the rights to the hit music they'd recorded.