Metallica: Some Kind of Monster

Watch "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004) online on iFILM — the documentary that turned a band's breakdown into essential viewing. Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky spent nearly two years inside Metallica's recording sessions as James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich and Kirk Hammett tried to make "St. Anger" while simultaneously falling apart. Bassist Jason Newsted had just quit, and the remaining three brought in therapist Phil Towle to help them function as a group.

The cameras stayed rolling through everything. Hetfield checking into rehab and going dark for months. Twenty years of built-up friction between Hetfield and Ulrich finally surfacing on tape. A genuinely awkward sit-down with Dave Mustaine, dismissed from the band two decades earlier and still carrying the wound. The eventual auditions that landed Robert Trujillo the bass slot. What started as promotional footage became something rawer — a study of what it costs to hold a band together when ego, addiction and money are all pulling in different directions. Stream "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004) on iFILM.