Movies

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

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

The Family of musician Peter Seeger and filmmaker Toshi Seeger celebrate the season of Christmas by making home made wrapping paper. Their daughter...

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

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

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

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....

Powerful music leaps from the air and can change the actual world. At the Newport Folk Festivals in the early 1960s, the molecules were electric with...

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

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

This film speaks to the need for solidarity between all maritime unions, vividly recounting the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, which culminated...

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

This film documents work songs of a fishing community in Ghana

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

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

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

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...

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

Blues/Folk Performer Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) speaks and performs several songs in various settings.

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...