The Tale of the Dog is a documentary film produced and directed by Dan Obarski and Scott Montgomery. The film unearths the story of the Family Dog Denver, a music venue opened in 1967 by Chet Helms' San Francisco-based Family Dog Productions and Barry Fey. The Family Dog was pivotal in changing the cultural course of the city of Denver by bringing in up-and-coming acts like The Doors, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The Byrds, and many others, subsequently creating a nexus for the hippie movement to flourish in the otherwise western and conservative town. Prior to the documentary this historic episode had been lost to time. The film ends up delivering a broader, previously unknown chapter in the history of the 1960s in America, and in particular that of rock and roll, the blues, psychedelic poster art, and the infamous culture clashes between hippies and mainstream society of that decade. As a result, the film serves as a definitive reference for the significance that the venue and many of the individuals involved in it had on the city and on the rock and roll era.

The film stars Canned Heat, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Raphael (Bob) Schnepf, Roger McNamee, and features Family Dog Denver employees, bands that played there, the people who hung out there, and the Denver police who tried to shut it down.

The film premiered at the University of Denver in February 2020, and was distributed by Cinedigm on major streaming platforms in 2021. Reception to the film has been overwhelmingly positive.