# The Doors documentary/music video? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925 "2013-05-21T13:43:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/1 "2013-05-21T13:43:10Z")
I saw a great video on The Doors sometime in the '90s. It had original ‘music videos’ (or whatever they were called in the '60s) that included _Unknown Soldier_, with Jim Morrison being tied to a post and shot by firing squad, and another one (_Wild Child_?) that featured the Kwakuitl-dressed-as-a-bird-on-the-bow-of-a-canoe scene from Edward S. Curtis’s 1914 film _In The Land Of The Head Hunters_ (aka _In The Land Of The War Canoes_). It also had new music videos made my contemporary artists. I think the music was original on those. What was the title of this video? ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/2 "2013-05-21T16:20:45Z")
Back in the 90’s I had a Laser Disc called “The Doors Collection” which had three features plus over an hour of “Special Features” They were _Live at the Hollywood Bowl_, _The Soft Parade_, and _Dance on Fire_. The Dance on Fire feature was pretty much just their music videos and both _The Unknown Soldier_ and \*Wild Child \*are included. I don’t recall any music from any other bands on it, but it has been years since I watched it. [This is a write up about it.](http://www.doors.com/whatsnew/laser.html) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/3 "2013-05-21T16:30:02Z")
> [@edwards\_beard](#): > > The Dance on Fire feature was pretty much just their music videos and both _The Unknown Soldier_ and \*Wild Child \*are included. That’s it! There was no music from other bands on it, but contemporary musicians appeared in videos on it, integrated into the other footage. I remember thinking at the time how nicely the integration was done. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/4 "2013-05-22T18:13:30Z")
Speaking of Doors documentaries, [When You’re Strange](https://movies.netflix.com/movie/When-You-re-Strange/70112752) was a good movie. ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2013, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/5 "2013-05-22T18:53:54Z")
I take it that everyone has read Danny Sugarman’s book. I think it’s caled \*\*Break on Through to the Other Side." I went to Morrison’s grave in Paris. It used to be junked up a lot with lipstick, inscriptions, etc. It’s been cleaned up now and a discreet guard is on duty at a distance. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [May 23, 2013, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-doors-documentary-music-video/658925/6 "2013-05-23T11:31:26Z")
I’m guessing the **Danny Sugarman** book you mean is _Wonderland Avenue_. I loved it back when it came out in 1991, but haven’t read it since… blurb: * * * At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison’s protege and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous underworld of the rock ‘n’ roll scene, diving headfirst into booze, sex and drugs: every conceivable kind of drug, ever day, in every possible permutation. By the age of twenty-one he had an idyllic home, a beautiful girlfriend, the best car in the world, two kinds of hepatitis, a diseased heart, a $500 a day heroin habit and only a week to live. He lived. This is his tale. Excessive, scandalous, comic, cautionary and horrifying, it chronicles the 60s dream gone to rot and the early life of a Hollywood Wild Child who was just brilliant at being bad. * * *