15 dance music films you should probably watch

Soulwax's tour movie is a cut 'n paste job just like the DJ sets of the band's spin-off, 2manydjs. Footage flies past with strobe-like intensity, mashing together places, people and various funny situations which range from the chuckle-inducing to the totally surreal. Perhaps more noteworthy for its format than its content, Part Of The Weekend Never dies is a lively, 100mph portrait of brothers David and Stephen Dewaele and their musical project that ruled indie disco for a long time in the 00s.

The concert film captures on camera what so many dance music enthusiasts have been enjoying for over twenty years across the world. Don't Think documents The Chemical Brothers' appearance at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan in 2011, with 21 cameras recording the mind-boggling audiovisual live show. The film is every bit as spine-tingling as the same titled album, and the immersive psychedelic screen visuals take viewers on a journey supported by some of the duo's greatest hits.

"Jungle is about making music adults hate and kids love," the late Peter Harris of label and shop Kickin' Records said in this 1994 documentary. And the kid's did love it. Especially M-Beat and General Levy's 'Incredible', which took the genre from the underground to the Top of the Pops stage the same year this was filmed. Focusing on jungle's black cultural roots, "young computer genius" Shy FX features, as do UK Apache, DJ Rap, LTJ Bukem and Fabio. It may be extremely dated now but it's one for the knowledge bank if you want to be clued up about one of Britain's musical treasures. Find out why General Levy pissed off some of the key players, too.

There's no summer like the summer of 1989 when it comes to dance music in the UK. While Germans were celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall and students in China were protesting in Tiananmen Square, baggy-clothed youngsters in the UK were off their nuts on E, flailing limbs to acid house in fields, aircraft hangars and wherever else there were DJs and a fuck-off soundsystem. This BBC doc explores that long, hot summer to find out how it all happened. From the effect of Margaret Thatcher's government and rival football hooligans calling a truce on the dancefloor, to yuppies cashing in on the movement and the eventual police crackdown, this was the Second Summer of Love.

Music Nation saw Dazed and Channel 4 team up for a series of documentaries providing an insight to some of the most significant scenes in electronic music. Ewen Spencer's Brandy & Coke kicked off series one, covering garage in the late 90s/early 00s, and the other episodes delved into Ibiza spilling into the Home Counties, Bristol's bass culture, punk-inspired hardcore and jungle. The second series was a fine follow-up, with the Dizzee Rascal, JME and Kano-featuring grime special, Northern Bassline, Glasgow's punk rock in the 1980s andBritish Asian Rave. That's plenty of insightful ammo to fuel your boredom.

Everyone knows the story of the DJ who starts out scratching around making beats in their bedroom and ends up flying round the world, playing to tens of thousands of people a night all the while getting showered in millions of dollars and attention from supermodels. And if you don't, you can catch up on it when the Zac Efron EDM vehicle We Are your Friends is released this summer. But what about the guy who doesn't make it? Which, let's face it, is pretty much all of us. Eden, released in the UK next month, tells the story of a French DJ who plays a pivotal role in creating the French Touch sound only to end up bankrupt and alone dealing with a crippling cocaine problem while his peers Daft Punk go on to become, well, Daft Punk. But it's not all doom and gloom. The film features a killer soundtrack, cameos from Tony Humphries and Masters At Work vocalist India and some of the best clubbing scenes ever committed to celluloid. Unmissable.