Roger Waters

Acting

Roger Waters

Born 1943-09-06 · Great Bookham, Surrey, England, UK

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. He was a founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd, serving as bassist and co-lead vocalist. Following the departure of bandmate Syd Barrett in 1968, Waters became the band's lyricist, principal songwriter and conceptual leader. The band subsequently achieved worldwide success in the 1970s with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. Although Waters' primary instrument in Pink Floyd was the bass guitar, he also experimented with synthesisers and tape loops and played rhythm guitars in recordings and in concert. Amid creative differences within the group, Waters left Pink Floyd in 1985 and began a legal battle with the remaining members over their future use of the group's name and material. The dispute was settled out of court in 1987, and nearly eighteen years passed before he performed with Pink Floyd again. Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking (1984), Radio K.A.O.S. (1987), and Amused to Death (1992). In 1986, he contributed songs and a score to the soundtrack of the movie When the Wind Blows based on the Raymond Briggs book of the same name. In 1990, he staged one of the largest rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an estimated 200,000 people in attendance. In 1996, he was inducted into the US and UK Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Pink Floyd. He has toured extensively as a solo act since 1999 and played The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety for his world tours of 2006–2008. In 2005, he released Ça Ira, an opera in three acts translated from Étienne Roda-Gil and his wife Nadine Delahaye's libretto based on the early French Revolution. On 2 July 2005, he reunited with Pink Floyd bandmates Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and David Gilmour for the Live 8 benefit concert, the group's only appearance with Waters since their last performance with him 24 years earlier. In 2010, he began The Wall Live, a worldwide tour that features a complete performance of The Wall.

Acting credits

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief poster
6.9

“12-12-12” was a fundraising concert to aid the victims of Hurricane Sandy, it took place on December 12, 2012 at Madison Square Garden. The concert featured Bon Jovi, Eric Clapton, Dave Grohl, Billy Joel, Alicia Keys, Chris Martin (featuring Michael Stipe), The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Eddie Vedder, Roger Waters, Kanye West, The Who, Paul McCartney (featuring Nirvana) as well as other artists.

12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief

2012

If These Walls Could Sing poster
6.5

The untold story of the Abbey Road studio, all-star interviews and intimate access to the premises.

If These Walls Could Sing

2022

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii poster
8.1

British progressive rock band Pink Floyd perform at the ancient Roman Amphitheatre in the ruins of Pompeii, Italy in 1971. Although the band perform a typical live set from the era, there is no audience beyond the basic film crew.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

1972

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) poster
7.4

In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)

2023

Roger Waters: The Wall poster
8.0

A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

Roger Waters: The Wall

2014

Live 8 poster
7.4

On 2 July 2005 an estimated 3 billion people came together in the fight against extreme poverty. LIVE 8 - 10 concerts featuring over 1000 musicians from across the globe - asked people not for their money, but for their voice.

Live 8

2005

John Lennon: A Journey in the Life poster
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To commemorate the fifth anniversary of John Lennon's murder. Journey in the Life chronicles the life of the musician, making use of dramatizations, fantasy-like images, and commentary. The material for the special is drawn from Lennon's writings and songs, along with stills, interviews, and documentary footage of the famous Beatle and dramatic recreations of his life.

John Lennon: A Journey in the Life

1985

No artwork available
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Produced by award-winning Platform Films, this documentary examines how the truth is being censored in the mainstream and social media, in education and education and entertainment and how terrorism law is being used to silence dissent. With contributions from Ken Loach, Peter Oborne and Sarah Wilkinson.

Censoring Palestine

2024

David Gilmour - Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine poster
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A documentary chronicling the tour for David Gilmour's 2006 album "On An Island"

David Gilmour - Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine

2007

Pink Floyd - Video Anthology 1966-1983 poster
NR

This is a great collection of videos and live stuff, a must for any fan.

Pink Floyd - Video Anthology 1966-1983

2007

Roger Waters: Us + Them poster
7.8

Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features songs from his legendary Pink Floyd albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here) and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters: Us + Them

2019

Rock Milestones: Pink Floyd's The Wall (The Ultimate Critical Review) poster
6.0

It is now over 25 years since the release of The Wall. Conceived by Roger Waters as an ambitious double album, a spectacular live show and a ground breaking feature film. The Wall has gone on to achieve iconic status in the history of popular music. This program draws on live performance footage of Pink Floyd and highlights from the film. Also includes extracts from archive interviews with Gerald Scarfe and Alan Parker, the director of The Wall, along with the views of a team of leading musicians and musicologists. This is the independent critical review of a milestone in popular culture, which strips away the prejudice to produce the ultimate retrospective on one of the most important and iconoclastic popular works of the twentieth century. Featuring Highlights From: • Another Brick in The Wall Part 2 • Comfortably Numb • One Of My Turns • Plus Many More!

Rock Milestones: Pink Floyd's The Wall (The Ultimate Critical Review)

2007

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd poster
7.3

Follow the moment Barrett was kicked out of Pink Floyd, from the narrative of him going from groundbreaking musician to iconic rocker and manic, unstable star.

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd

2023

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin poster
7.9

A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back.

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

1990

Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert poster
6.8

The Coachella concert series is examined through the lens of rare footage, interviews, and performances from some of the most famous performers who ever graced the venue.

Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert

2020

The Occupation of the American Mind poster
8.4

Over the past few years, Israel's ongoing military occupation of Palestinian territory and repeated invasions of the Gaza strip have triggered a fierce backlash against Israeli policies virtually everywhere in the world—except the United States. This documentary takes an eye-opening look at this critical exception, zeroing in on pro-Israel public relations efforts within the U.S.

The Occupation of the American Mind

2016

State of Fear poster
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Seven hundred and seventy one words from Orwell, Chomsky, Shakespeare and others. Seven hundred and seventy one people off the street. A 15 minute meditation on Capitalism, Thought Control and the "Freedom" of Speech.

State of Fear

1997

Stamping Ground poster
6.2

Documentary of a 1970 rock concert held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Stamping Ground

1971

Roger Waters: Live in Argentina poster
NR

Recorded at Riverplate Stadium, Buenos Aires, March 18, 2007.

Roger Waters: Live in Argentina

2007

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut poster
6.8

Pink Floyd released a 19-minute "video EP" in 1983 for The Final Cut, essentially four music videos in a continuous sequence, directed by Willie Christie, who was Roger Waters' brother-in-law. Scottish actor Alex McAvoy, who played the teacher in the film version of The Wall, had a prominent role in the video EP. Waters appears (though all but his mouth is silhouetted) as a patient singing the lyrics to a psychologist on the grounds of the Fletcher Memorial Home.

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

1983

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 7 - Continu/ation poster
10.0

Volume 7: 1967–1972: Continu/ation from Pink Floyd. Hampstead Heath And St. Michael’s Church, Highgate, London, UK, March 1967 - Arnold Layne (Alternative Version). P1 - P Wie Petersilie’ Stuggart, Germany, 22 July 1969 - Corporal Clegg, Band Interview, A Saucerful Of Secrets. Bath Festival Of Blues & Progressive Music’, Shepton Mallet, UK, 27 June 1970 - Atom Heart Mother. Kralingen Music Festival’ Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 28 June 1970 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, A Saucerful Of Secrets. ‘The Amsterdam Rock Circus’ Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 22 May 1972 - Atom Heart Mother, Careful With That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful Of Secrets.

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 7 - Continu/ation

2016

On l'appelait Roda poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

On l'appelait Roda

2018

Superstars in Concert poster
NR

Over ten years, documentary filmmaker Peter Clifton has recorded performances by some of the biggest names in world pop rock. From 1964 to 1973, groups such as the Rolling Stones, Animals, Cream, Blind Faith, Pink Floyd and Faces passed through London, as well as emblematic singers of that period, some with meteoric trajectory such as Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; others, poets of a single era, like Cat Stevens and Donovan, as well as those who would shine brighter a few years later, like Joe Cocker and Tina Turner. You can check it all out on this historic DVD, an indispensable document for anyone who appreciates the purest rock.

Superstars in Concert

1984

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 3 - Dramatis/ation poster
10.0

Forum Musiques, Paris, France, 22 January 1969 ("Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", David Gilmour interview [in French], "A Saucerful of Secrets") The Man and The Journey: Royal Festival Hall, London, rehearsal, 14 April 1969 ("Afternoon", "The Beginning", "Cymbaline", "Beset by Creatures of the Deep", "The End of the Beginning") Essencer Pop & Blues Festival, Essen, Germany, October 11, 1969 ("Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "A Saucerful of Secrets") Music Power & European Music Revolution, Festival Actuel Amougies Mont de L'Enclus, Belgium, 25 October 1969 ("Green Is the Colour", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", "Interstellar Overdrive" [with Frank Zappa])

Pink Floyd: The Early Years, Vol 3 - Dramatis/ation

2016

Behind the camera

Pink Floyd: The Wall poster
7.9

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.

Pink Floyd: The Wall

1982

The Four Walls poster
3.5

Kurdish composer Boran is no longer able to see the ocean, obstructed by a new building, and a tragedy befalls him…

The Four Walls

2021

Roger Waters: The Wall poster
8.0

A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

Roger Waters: The Wall

2014

Roger Waters: The Wall poster
8.0

A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

Roger Waters: The Wall

2014

Roger Waters: The Wall poster
8.0

A concert film that the former Pink Floyd singer-songwriter made on various tour dates between 2010 and 2013, when he was playing his former group's 1980 double-album in its entirety.

Roger Waters: The Wall

2014

Roger Waters: Us + Them poster
7.8

Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features songs from his legendary Pink Floyd albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here) and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters: Us + Them

2019

Roger Waters: Us + Them poster
7.8

Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldwide, the film features songs from his legendary Pink Floyd albums (The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Animals, Wish You Were Here) and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want?

Roger Waters: Us + Them

2019

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin poster
7.9

A global television broadcast of the event in which former Pink Floyd leader singer and composer Roger Waters led an all-star cast in a mammoth benefit performance of his acclaimed concept album, The Wall. Set in Berlin, Germany less than a year after the destruction of the hated Berlin Wall, Waters was accompanied by disparate talents such as Cyndi Lauper, James Galway, Joni Mitchell and Albert Finney in the classic dark musical tale of a rock star's descent into madness and back.

Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin

1990

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut poster
6.8

Pink Floyd released a 19-minute "video EP" in 1983 for The Final Cut, essentially four music videos in a continuous sequence, directed by Willie Christie, who was Roger Waters' brother-in-law. Scottish actor Alex McAvoy, who played the teacher in the film version of The Wall, had a prominent role in the video EP. Waters appears (though all but his mouth is silhouetted) as a patient singing the lyrics to a psychologist on the grounds of the Fletcher Memorial Home.

Pink Floyd: The Final Cut

1983

Walled Off poster
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A secret museum in an art hotel sparks intrigue when it's revealed to be a creation of controversial artist, Banksy. Using art as a form of political resistance, the hotel highlights the reality of life under Israeli military occupation. The film journeys through the hotel, Palestine, and a relevant past to dismantle the mainstream media's bias towards the Palestinian struggle for freedom and equality.

Walled Off

2024

Pink Floyd - The Reunion Concert poster
9.0

On 2 July 2005 Pink Floyd performed at the London Live 8 concert with Roger Waters rejoining David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright. It was the quartet's first performance together in over 24 years — the band's last show with Waters was at Earls Court in London on 17 June 1981.

Pink Floyd - The Reunion Concert

2005

Roger Waters The Wall on Tour poster
5.2

Produced by Harvested Records, iShoot, iEdit is a fan-created DVD documenting Roger Waters' 2010 Wall Live tour. Released on Veteran's Day (November 11, 2010) and dedicated to all fallen loved ones. Filmed at The United Center, Chicago, IL September 20 & 21 Additional footage filmed at The Nassau Coliseum, Long Island, NY October 12 & 13. The foundation of all the footage (and audio) was taken from 9/20. Additional shots are from the 9/21, 10/12 and 10/13 shows and all are from tapehead2's HD master files. "iShoot, iEdit" (HRV DVD 019)

Roger Waters The Wall on Tour

2010

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7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roger Waters : The Wall - Live Netherlands

2011

Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix) poster
10.0

The iconic 1977 Pink Floyd album has been remixed for the first time by James Guthrie. Animals is a concept album, focusing on the social-political conditions of mid-1970s Britain, and was a change from the style of the band's earlier work. The album was developed from a collection of unrelated songs into a concept which describes the apparent social and moral decay of society, likening the human condition to that of animals. Taking inspiration from George Orwell's Animal Farm, the album depicts the different classes of people as animals with pigs being at the top of the social chain, dropping down to the sheep as the mindless herd following what they are told, with dogs as the business bosses getting fat on the money and power they hold over the other. Although it's been a long time since 1977, the narrative of the album still resonates today as our social and economic situation mirrors that of the time.

Pink Floyd: Animals (2018 Remix)

2022

Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill - Live from Prague poster
7.0

Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour, “This Is Not A Drill”, Live from Prague, in cinemas around the world. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “Is This The Life We Really Want?”. Waters also debuts his new song, “The Bar”. Waters is joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake to deliver an unforgettable performance with a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious planet home.

Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill - Live from Prague

2023

Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill - Live from Prague poster
7.0

Roger Waters, the creative force behind the golden years of Pink Floyd, presents his first Farewell Tour, “This Is Not A Drill”, Live from Prague, in cinemas around the world. This cinematic extravaganza is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive and will include 20 Pink Floyd and Roger Waters classic songs, including: “Us & Them”, “Comfortably Numb”, “Wish You Were Here”, and “Is This The Life We Really Want?”. Waters also debuts his new song, “The Bar”. Waters is joined on stage by Jonathan Wilson, Dave Kilminster, Jon Carin, Gus Seyffert, Robert Walter, Joey Waronker, Shanay Johnson, Amanda Belair and Seamus Blake to deliver an unforgettable performance with a call to action to love, protect, and share our precious planet home.

Roger Waters: This Is Not a Drill - Live from Prague

2023

Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Live - Bogota 2007 poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roger Waters - The Dark Side of the Moon Live - Bogota 2007

2007

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Immersion Box Set) poster
5.0

DISC 5 - BLURAY: - AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit - AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, Original stereo mix (1975) mastered in high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit - AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, 4.0 Quad mix (1975) mastered in high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit - AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen films: - Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro - Shine On You Crazy Diamond - AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip - AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film

Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (Immersion Box Set)

2011

Pink Floyd: The Wall Live at Earl's Court poster
NR

Proshot (Low quality) footage of the band's tour. The concert was also shot on film, but remains unreleased in that format.

Pink Floyd: The Wall Live at Earl's Court

1980

Pink Floyd: The Wall Live at Earl's Court poster
NR

Proshot (Low quality) footage of the band's tour. The concert was also shot on film, but remains unreleased in that format.

Pink Floyd: The Wall Live at Earl's Court

1980

Pink Floyd - Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pink Floyd - Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena

1975

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother poster
7.0

Recorded on Pink Floyd's third American tour, this show introduced San Francisco to some of the newer material from the Ummagumma LPs, and a taste of things soon to come on the Atom Heart Mother LP, to be released later that year. This San Francisco audience is particularly quiet and attentive, a fact that seems to have facilitated a more intimate, unique and focused performance than other dates on this tour.

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

1970

Roger Waters: Radio K.A.O.S. poster
10.0

Billy is a 23-year-old Welshman from the South Wales Valleys. He is mentally and physically disabled, confined to a wheelchair and only able to work his upper body. Though he is conceived as mentally challenged, his disability has actually made him not only a genius, but also superhuman, as he also has the ability to literally hear radio waves throughout all frequencies without aid.

Roger Waters: Radio K.A.O.S.

1988

The Dark Side of The Moon - Live at Wembley`74 poster
8.0

Historic live performance by Pink Floyd on 11/16/1974 at the Empire Pool in Wembley, London. The band performed Dark Side of the Moon in its entireity, along with one of the final performances with Roger Waters of Echoes. This concert was recorded by BBC Radio 1, and this portion was broadcast on 1/11/1975 as part of Alan Freeman's program. The first set, which included songs from Wish You Were Here and Animals, was not included in this broadcast.

The Dark Side of The Moon - Live at Wembley`74

1974