Pete Seeger Movies

After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the...

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.

The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that chronicl...

A Sigh and a Wish tells the story of pioneer folklorist Helen Creighton and of the enduring appeal of her remarkable collections of song and story. Cr...

With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack...

55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by th...

A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.

In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.

This fascinating program tells the story of the music and artists that have influenced Bob Dylan throughout his career. Although his reputation as a s...

A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.

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 "...

Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul...

Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an epileptic,...

The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.

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 ev...

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.

Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.

THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962),looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a cotton...