Metal: A Headbanger's Journey adalah film dokumenter tahun 2005 oleh Sam Dunn, seorang antropolog yang pergi ke banyak negara untuk menyelidiki asal mula musik heavy metal dan mengapa genre ini disukai banyak orang. Film ini ditayangkan dalam Festival Film Internasional Toronto 2005, dan diterbitkan sebagai DVD pada 19 September 2006.
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Dunn mewawancarai berbagai tokoh musik heavy metal:
Bagan berikut ini menjelaskan pandangan Dunn tentang perkembangan berbagai subgenre metal, dan mencoba mendaftar grup musik yang mewakili setiap kategori.
- Cream - Jimi Hendrix - Blue Cheer - Deep Purple - Led Zeppelin - MC5 - Mountain - The Stooges - Black Sabbath
- Thin Lizzy - Blue Öyster Cult - Aerosmith - AC/DC - Ted Nugent
- Arthur Brown - Alice Cooper - New York Dolls - KISS - Ozzy Osbourne - W.A.S.P.
- The Ramones - The Damned - The Sex Pistols - The Clash - The Dead Boys
- Scorpions - Judas Priest - Rainbow - Accept - Manowar - Dio - Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Helloween - Blind Guardian - HammerFall - Primal Fear
- Motörhead - Saxon - Iron Maiden - Angel Witch - Girlschool - Tygers of Pan Tang - Diamond Head
- Uriah Heep - Rush - Queensrÿche - Savatage - Fates Warning - Voivod - Dream Theater - Meshuggah - Symphony X - Evergrey
- Slade - Sweet - Hanoi Rocks - Mötley Crüe - Twisted Sister - Poison - Cinderella - Skid Row
- Quiet Riot - Van Halen - Whitesnake - Def Leppard - Europe - Dokken - Lita Ford - Ratt - Guns N' Roses - Winger - Warrant - Doro - The Darkness
- Witchfinder General - Trouble - Candlemass - Kyuss - Today is the Day - Cathedral
- Agnostic Front - D.O.A. - Exploited - Black Flag - Bad Brains - The Misfits - GBH - Dead Kennedys - Minor Threat
- Metallica - Slayer - Anthrax - Megadeth - Exodus - Overkill - Kreator - Destruction - Testament - Sepultura - Nuclear Assault - Death Angel - Pantera
- Venom - Mercyful Fate - Bathory - Celtic Frost
- Mayhem - Gorgoroth - Darkthrone - Emperor - Satyricon - Enslaved - Dimmu Borgir - Cradle Of Filth (UK)
- Napalm Death - Carcass - Repulsion - Brutal Truth - Cephalic Carnage
- Possessed - Sodom - Death - Morbid Angel - Obituary - Deicide - Cannibal Corpse - Immolation - Autopsy - Nile
- Grave - Entombed - At the Gates - Dismember - Arch Enemy - Soilwork - In Flames - Dark Tranquility - The Haunted
- Corrosion of Conformity - Suicidal Tendencies - Dirty Rotten Imbeciles - Machine Head - Stormtroopers of Death - Hatebreed - The Dillinger Escape Plan
- Green River - The Melvins - Soundgarden - Mudhoney - Nirvana - Alice In Chains - Mother Love Bone - Pearl Jam - Stone Temple Pilots
- Paradise Lost - Tiamat - Therion - Type O Negative - My Dying Bride - Anathema - Theatre Of Tragedy - Opeth
- Ministry - White Zombie - Godflesh - Nine Inch Nails - Fear Factory - Marilyn Manson - Static-X
- Faith No More - Jane's Addiction - Prong - Living Colour - The Smashing Pumpkins - Tool - Rage Against The Machine
- Biohazard - KoЯn - Slipknot - Limp Bizkit - Godsmack - Coal Chamber - Disturbed - Kittie - System of a Down
- Shadows Fall - Lamb of God - Darkest Hour - Chimaira - Killswitch Engage - Unearth - God Forbid