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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Arlo Guthrie

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

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...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Pete Seeger

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anthony Harris

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Béla Fleck

Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Izzy Young

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....

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Cast: Odile Boyd

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

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Elliott

When a young couple buys a contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Betsy Corner

Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Harry Chapin

Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Robeson Jr.

For some 30 years, they embodied "country blues" for folk music audiences around the globe. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were once ubiquitous, and...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sonny Terry

“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Leon Bibb

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.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bob Dylan

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

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Cast: Woody Guthrie

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Dorothy Thigpen

Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jean Ritchie

Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the '60s and early '70s. The film highlights some of the finest singer/songwriters of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Susan Sarandon

The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California....

Genre: Music

Cast: Pat Benatar

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ammiel Alcalay

It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Josh Fox

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Richard Dreyfuss

In this documentary, Pete Seeger is caught in a relaxed mood in and outside his cottage outside New York in an excellent video produced by Jim Downing

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working...

Genre: Music

Cast: Sarah Ogan Gunning

A concert featuring singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie. Performing from Austin, Texas, the folk-singer is joined by guest artists.

Genre: Music

Cast: Arlo Guthrie

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Horton Barker

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Liza Minnelli

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Johnny Cash

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Woody Guthrie

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Tom Smothers

Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bill Burnett

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, the writer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a reporter tries to help them fight for fair compensation.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rian Malan

The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable moments. Sing-along in this star-studded celebration!

Genre: Family

Cast: Caroll Spinney

In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood...

Genre: Music

Cast: Will Geer

A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from...

Genre: Music

Cast: Indio Juan

A warmhearted memorial to the folk singer whose songs galvanized organizers and guitar-pickers across the United States. Part biography, part...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Woody Guthrie

THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pete Seeger

A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.

Genre: Music

Cast: Dave Van Ronk

Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ronnie Gilbert

A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.

Genre: History

Cast: Oscar Hunter

A look into those convicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anne Braden

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...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lee Conley Bradley

Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paul Robeson

A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Barack Obama

Full concert recorded live at Wolf Trap, VA for PBS broadcast. Arlo and Pete are joined onstage by the band Shanandoah on many of their well-loved...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arlo Guthrie

Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar,...

Genre: Music

Cast: Caroll Spinney

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose...

Genre: Music

Cast: Phil Ochs

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...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phil Ochs

This classic documentary made by director Robert Elfstrom shows Pete Seeger as a fighter for human rights through songs such as I Dreamed I Saw Joe...

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Cast: Pete Seeger