7.7
The Ballad of Ramblin’ Jack
IMDb: 7.7 2000 112 min
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, ...
6.3
Alice’s Restaurant
IMDb: 6.3 1969 111 min
Alice’s Restaurant is a 1969 movie adapted from a song by Arlo Guthrie. The song is Arlo Guthrie’s most famous work, a talking blues ...
7.5
Festival
IMDb: 7.5 1967 97 min
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, ...
7.2
Give Me the Banjo
IMDb: 7.2 2011 90 min
The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that ...
7.3
The Internationale
IMDb: 7.3 2000 30 min
THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people’s stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to ...
8.4
The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time
IMDb: 8.4 1982 78 min
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group, “The Weavers,” and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall. ...
0
The Streets of Greenwood
1962 20 min
THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a ...
8.2
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
IMDb: 8.2 2002 93 min
The history of the irreverent “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” and the content battles it fought with its television network. ...
8.2
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
IMDb: 8.2 2007 93 min
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger. Release: Pete Seeger The Power ...
7.5
Woody Guthrie: Ain’t Got No Home
IMDb: 7.5 2006 90 min
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.” The music of the folk singer/songwriter ...