Pete Seeger Movies

  • 2014
    Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

    Freedom Summer

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

    Freedom Summer
  • 2011
    Give Me the Banjo

    Give Me the Banjo

    Give Me the Banjo

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

    Give Me the Banjo
  • 2019
    Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

    Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

    Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

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

    Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
  • 2007
    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

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

    Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
  • 2006
    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home

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    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...

    Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
  • 1980
    Canto Libre - den fria sången

    Canto Libre - den fria sången

    Canto Libre - den fria sången

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

    Canto Libre - den fria sången
  • 2002
    Strange Fruit

    Strange Fruit

    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...

    Strange Fruit
  • 1983
    Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

    Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

    Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists

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

    Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
  • 2004
    Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal

    Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal

    Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal

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

    Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
  • 2011
    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

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    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...

    Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
  • 2013
    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain

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    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...

    Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
  • 2023
    Down By The Riverside

    Down By The Riverside

    Down By The Riverside

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

    Down By The Riverside
  • 1984
    Chords of Fame

    Chords of Fame

    Chords of Fame

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    Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.

    Chords of Fame
  • 2000
    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

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

    The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
  • 1962
    Wasn't That a Time

    Wasn't That a Time

    Wasn't That a Time

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

    Wasn't That a Time
  • 1962
    Lines: Horizontal

    Lines: Horizontal

    Lines: Horizontal

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    An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against...

    Lines: Horizontal
  • 2007
    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place

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

    Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
  • 2008
    Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

    Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

    Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan

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

    Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
  • 1971
    The Foolish Frog

    The Foolish Frog

    The Foolish Frog

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    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...

    The Foolish Frog
  • 1988
    BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

    BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

    BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie

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    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.

    BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie