When You're Strange

A film about The Doors

The creative chemistry of four brilliant artists —drummer John Densmore, guitarist Robby Kreiger, keyboardist Ray Manzarek and singer Jim Morrison— made The Doors one of America's most iconic and influential rock bands. Using footage shot between their formation in 1965 and Morrison's death in 1971, it follows the band from the corridors of UCLA's film school, where Manzarek and Morrison met, to the stages of sold-out arenas.

Cast

Johnny Depp

Narrator (voice)

Jim Morrison

Self (archive footage)

John Densmore

Self (archive footage)

Ray Manzarek

Self (archive footage)

Robby Krieger

Self (archive footage)

Pamela Courson

Self (archive footage)

Janis Joplin

Self (archive footage)

Andy Warhol

Self (archive footage)

Jim Ladd

Self (voice)

John F. Kennedy

Self (archive footage)

Martin Luther King Jr.

Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson

Self (archive footage)