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Here lies all the videos shot by Metallica, for the music they play.

One[]

Original Version[]

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Metallica - One Official Music Video

The music video for "One" from the album ...And Justice for All, would become Metallica's first music video ever shot. Recorded in December of 1988 with directors Bill Pope and Michael Salomon. The video was originally released on January 22, 1989, during the Headbangers Ball on MTV.

The video features the band playing in an abandoned warehouse in Long Beach, California, performing to the song "One". Using footage from 1971 film adaption of the book "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo, which Metallica bought rights into for using instead of making an oh going deal, depicting a soldier who has lost his arms, legs, and all of his face (including his eyes, ears, teeth, and tongue), but that his mind functions perfectly, leaving him a prisoner in his own body.

Jammin' Version[]

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Metallica - One Jammin' Version Official Music Video

Fearing that MTV would not take the original cut of the video that used footage from "Johnny Got His Gun" the band decided to make another cut of the video without the scenes from the movie. Just leaving the footage of the band themselves playing the song, reducing the length of the video from nearly eight minutes to a mere five and a half. The alternate take was dubbed the Jammin' Version and was released on January 30, 1989.

Enter Sandman[]

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Metallica Enter Sandman (Official Music Video)

The music video for "Enter Sandman" from the album Metallica (The Black Album), is Metallica's second music video. Recorded in June of 1991 with director Wayne Isham. The video was originally released on July 30, 1991.

The video follows the theme of the song featuring images of a child having nightmares and images of an old man with shots of the band playing the song. The child dreams that he is drowning, falling from the top of a building, covered in snakes, being chased by a truck, and finally falling from a mountain while escaping the truck. During the part of the song in which the child recites a prayer, he is being watched by the Sandman. Throughout the video, the picture flickers continuously.

The Unforgiven[]

Original Version[]

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Metallica The Unforgiven (Official Music Video)

The music video for "The Unforgiven" from the album Metallica (The Black Album), is Metallica's third music video. Recorded in September of 1991 with director Matt Mahurin. The video was originally released on November 19, 1991.

The black-and-white video is themed around a boy born in captivity who spends his life in a windowless stone room. As the video progress, he ages into an adult and then an old man. He spends his entire life carving into the stone to create a window while occasionally grasping his one possession: a locket. It is implied that another captive lives on the other side of the stone room. The video ends with the old man finally creating a window, through which he deposits his possession. He blocks off the tunnel through which he crawled to access the cell using the square of stone he created when he made the window, then lies down to die.

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Metallica The Unforgiven (Theatrical Version) (Official Music Video)

Theatrical Version[]

An 11:33 long, "theatrical" version of the video was made featuring several minutes of introductory scenes that precede the timeline of the main portion of the video. The video was originally released on the same date as the original and then was released on the band's video compilation The Videos: 1989-2004.

Nothing Else Matters[]

Wherever I May Roam[]

Sad but True[]

Fade to Black[]

Until It Sleeps[]

Hero of the Day[]

Mama Said[]

King Nothing[]

The Memory Remains[]

The Unforgiven II[]

Fuel[]

Turn the Page[]

Whiskey in the Jar[]

Die, Die My Darling[]

No Leaf Clover[]

I Disappear[]

St. Anger[]

Frantic[]

The Unnamed Feeling[]

Some Kind of Monster[]

Iron Man[]

The Day That Never Comes[]

All Nightmare Long[]

Broken, Beat & Scared[]

Master of Puppets[]

Hardwired[]

Moth Into Flame[]

Atlas, Arise![]

Dream No More[]

Confusion[]

ManUNkind[]

Now That We're Dead (video one)[]

Here Comes Revenge[]

Am I Savage?[]

Halo On Fire[]

Murder One[]

Spit Out the Bone[]

Lords of Summer[]

Now That We're Dead (video two)[]

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