X

Join or Sign In

Sign in to customize your TV listings

Continue with Facebook Continue with email

By joining TV Guide, you agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy.

Sly Lives! (aka the Burden of Black Genius)

An examination of the life and legacy of Sly & The Family Stone — the groundbreaking band led by the charismatic and enigmatic Sly Stone — captures the band’s rise, reign, and subsequent fadeout while shedding light on the unseen burden that comes with success for Black artists in America.

Loading. Please wait...

Content not available in your region? ExpressVPN can help you stay connected wherever you are. Get 4 extra months FREE with TV Guide's exclusive offer.

Cast & Crew See All

Sly Stone
Self - Singer, Sly & The Family Stone
Greg Errico
Self - Drums, Sly & The Family Stone
Larry Graham
Self - Bass, Sly & The Family Stone

Featured Video

Sly Lives! Aka The Burden Of Black Genius: The American Flag
Sly Lives! Aka The Burden Of Black Genius: The American Flag
0:27

0:27 Sly Lives! Aka The Burden Of Black Genius: The American Flag

Awards

  • 2025 - Gotham TV Award - Outstanding Original Film, Broadcast, or Streaming - nominated
  • 2025 - Indiemusic Schweppes Award - - nominated
  • 2025 - Black Reel - Outstanding Documentary - nominated
  • 2025 - Primetime Emmy - Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special - nominated

You May Also Like See All

Best Kept Secret
The Leopard
Compensation
Lawrence of Arabia

Popular Movies See all movies

The Sound of Music

2 hr 54 mins
Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical inspired this story of the convent-trained governess who won the heart of the Von Trapp family and whose courage led them across the Alps in their 1938 flight to freedom.
63   Metascore
1965 Documentary, Drama, Family, Music

The Execution of Wanda Jean

1 hr 28 mins
The Execution of Wanda Jean chronicles the life-and-death battle of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman to be put to death in the United States in the modern era.
73   Metascore
2002 Documentary

Wyatt Earp

3 hr 11 mins
Wyatt Earp is a movie about a man and his family. The movie shows us the good times and the bad times of one of the West's most famous individuals.
47   Metascore
1994 Action & Adventure, Documentary, Drama

The Robe

2 hr 15 mins
Marcellus is a tribune in the time of Christ. He is in charge of the group that is assigned to crucify Jesus. Drunk, he wins Jesus' homespun robe after the crucifixion. He is tormented by nightmares and delusions after the event. Hoping to find a way to live with what he has done, and still not believing in Jesus, he returns to Palestine to try to learn what he can of the man he killed.
1953 Drama, Documentary

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2 hr 40 mins
Taking place in Missouri in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in his assassination at the hands of Robert Ford the following April. In the time between these two fateful events, the young and jealous Ford befriends the increasingly mistrustful outlaw, even as he plots his demise.
68   Metascore
2007 Documentary, Suspense, Drama, Action & Adventure

The Temptations

1 hr 28 mins
A biographical look at The Temptations, the Motown soul vocal quintet who first came to fame in the 1960s, as seen from the viewpoint of the last surviving original member, Otis Williams. Beginning from their humble origins in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1990s and the deaths of the other original members.
1998 Documentary, Drama, Music