It Might Get Loud

It Might Get Loud (2008) is a music documentary you can watch online on iFILM. Director Davis Guggenheim — who made An Inconvenient Truth — put Jimmy Page, the Edge and Jack White in a room together and asked each of them how they arrived at the sound that defined their band.

Three players, three generations, three completely different ideas about what a guitar is for. Page pulls out records and plays along. White builds a slide guitar from a plank and a Coke bottle on camera to prove that expensive equipment is beside the point. The Edge traces U2's entire sonic identity to a single delay pedal from the early eighties. Their eventual jam session — spontaneous, loose, quietly historic — is reason enough to sit through every minute. Stream It Might Get Loud (2008) online on iFILM.