Pete Seeger Movies
- 2014
Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer7.22014HD
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...
- 2011
Give Me the Banjo
Give Me the Banjo7.22011HD
The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that...
- 2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 197002019HD
In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood...
- 2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song72007HD
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.
- 2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home02006HD
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by...
- 1980
Canto Libre - den fria sången
Canto Libre - den fria sången01980HD
A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from...
- 2002
Strange Fruit
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In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...
- 1983
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists6.41983HD
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
- 2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal02004HD
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
- 2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune6.5712011HD
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the...
- 2013
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain02013HD
Big Bill Broonzy would inspire a generation of musicians, yet he was not the man they believed him to be. This first, very intimate, biography of the...
- 2023
Down By The Riverside
Down By The Riverside02023HD
“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk...
- 1984
Chords of Fame
Chords of Fame01984HD
Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.
- 2000
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack7.22000HD
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack...
- 1962
Wasn't That a Time
Wasn't That a Time01962HD
A look into those convicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee
- 1962
Lines: Horizontal
Lines: Horizontal6.11962HD
An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...
- 2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place02007HD
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
- 2008
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan8.52008HD
This fascinating program tells the story of the music and artists that have influenced Bob Dylan throughout his career. Although his reputation as a...
- 1971
The Foolish Frog
The Foolish Frog81971HD
A farmer wanted words to go with the tune he was playing when he saw a frog sitting on the bank of the stream. The frog did something silly which...
- 1988
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie01988HD
Documentary on the life of Woody Guthrie, the travelling songwriter and singer who paved the way for the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.