Folk Music Movies
- 2006
I Want to Destroy America
I Want to Destroy America02006HD
A documentary film by Peter I. Chang which traces the life of the Japanese musician Hisao Shinagawa through his early years as a folk singer in Tokyo...
- 2005
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Man in the Sand
Billy Bragg & Wilco: Man in the Sand82005HD
"Man in the Sand" is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, which involved the musicians creating...
- 1983
Sprout Wings and Fly
Sprout Wings and Fly5.91983HD
Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky,...
- 1968
The World of the Seekers
The World of the Seekers01968HD
While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of...
- 2008
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse
Fleisch ist mein Gemüse5.62008HD
Heinz Strunk, plagued by crater-like skin rashes, lives with his sick mother in Hamburg-Harburg in the 1980s. As a saxophonist, he tours the North...
- 1986
John Denver: Country Roads Live in England
John Denver: Country Roads Live in England81986HD
Fans continue to treasure the songs and performances of John Denver, one of the most popular recording artists of the 20th century. Before his death...
- 1979
Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija
Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija41979HD
The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for...
- 2019
Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea
Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea02019HD
A lyrical documentary about writer and street musician Roger Parham-Brown.
- 2012
Big Easy Express
Big Easy Express6.92012HD
Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Tennessee’s Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain’s acclaimed Mumford & Sons,...
- 2019
Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee
Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee02019HD
A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains
- 1972
Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert
Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert01972HD
A classic concert by Gordon Lightfoot from 1972, accompanied by Red Shea and Richard Haynes. They perform songs including Summer Side of Life,...
- 2013
My Prairie Home
My Prairie Home6.72013HD
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted...
- 1965
Hootenanny a Go-Go
Hootenanny a Go-Go01965HD
A square rich boy wants to make it with a pretty folk singer, so he buys the coffee house where she and a bunch of other beatniks perform. Features...
- 1982
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time7.21982HD
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
- 2008
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada
Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada62008HD
- 2017
No Roads In
No Roads In102017HD
An abandoned homestead, twelve songs and five days to cut an album. A journey into how the power of music transforms our life.
- 1970
The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse
The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse01970HD
The 'At The Roadhouse' concert film follows intimate performances and sequences by The Paper Kites, where in July 2022, the band arrived in the small...
- 2020
Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born
Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born02020HD
Few musicians have made an impact throughout the decades as seismic as Bob Dylan. Retrace his journey, from humble folk beginnings in Hibbing, to the...
- 1985
Six Days in June
Six Days in June4.21985HD
A young man finds a way to spend his last few days of freedom before joining the army. Set in eastern Bosnia in summer of 1968.
- 1975
Jean Carignan, Fiddler
Jean Carignan, Fiddler01975HD
Man of the people, taxi driver, Jean Carignan is above all else one of the world's greatest violinists. In his hands reels become complex,...