Amy Winehouse is an artist that needs no introduction. The British singer-songwriter captivated audiences with her rich, soulful ballads, ahead of her tragic death aged 27 in 2011. Read on to discover how to watch every Amy Winehouse documentary and film in order and where to stream them.
London-born and bred, Winehouse held a once-in-a-generation voice and topped the charts with songs such as Rehab, Tears Dry on their Own, Back to Black and Valerie. Her second album, Back to Black, went onto become one of the best-selling albums in UK history. With such a distinctive legacy, it’s no surprise that her life and tragic death has been covered extensively in documentaries and films.
Four years after her death from alcohol poisoning, Asif Kapadia directed a documentary that detailed Amy’s struggles with substance abuse and her rise to fame titled Amy. After its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival it went on to win an impressive 30 awards including the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Documentary and a Grammy for Best Music Film. The following year, Amy was nominated for Best Female Artist at the BRITs, the first of many accolades awarded to her after her death.
In the years that followed, a succession of new documentaries emerged to explore the young singer’s life, stardom and the events that led to her death including Amy Winehouse: The Last Goodbye, Amy Winehouse: Back to Black and 27: Gone too Soon. Amy Winehouse: Back to Black including previously unseen archive footage of the artist recording her most famous album, that landed her six Grammy Awards in one evening, and interviews with her Valerie co-writer Mark Ronson.
In 2019, Jordan Hill directed a TV movie that detailed the final hours of Amy’s life and explored her public battle with addiction. The Last 24 Hours: Amy Winehouse is one of the more in-depth explorations into the tragic events that led to her shocking death.
Since then, there’s been additional documentaries that explore different angles of the struggles that came with Amy’s sky-rocket to fame in Amy Winehouse: The Price of Fame, the BBC documentary Reclaiming Amy with rare family archive footage, and Fatal Addiction: Amy Winehouse. Amy’s god-daughter Dionne Bromfield opened up about her heart-breaking death in the 2021 TV special, Amy Winehouse & Me: Dionne’s Story, on the ten year anniversary of her death.
Now, Amy’s life and career is being commemorated in a musical drama titled Back to Black. Marisa Abela is donning the black winged eyeliner and that iconic beehive to portray Amy, while Jack O’Connell, Eddie Marsan and Lesley Manville also star in the film. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson, Back to Black will be the first biopic about the iconic singer and is certain to capture the hearts and minds of her biggest fans.
Ahead of the new film, here’s every Amy Winehouse film and documentary in order and where to stream them.
