BACKSTORY: The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music

Director: Michael Sodano
Documentary Short
USA | 14 min

The Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music is scheduled to open Spring of 2026. This unique facility, on the campus of Monmouth University in West Long Branch NJ will store over 40,000 items that document the career of Bruce Springsteen and illustrate his place in American music.

The Center was the vision of two fans – Chris Phillips and Bob Crane – who thought to collect valuable artifacts that were bound to be lost forever and archive them all in one place. BACKSTORY takes us behind the scenes of the work of turning this small idea into an unparalleled international repository, museum and research center for future generations.