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After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take...
Alice's Restaurant
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
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
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...
Freedom Summer
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
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...
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
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....
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
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
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...
An Act of Conscience
Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional...
Tribute to 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,...
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
For some 30 years, they embodied "country blues" for folk music audiences around the globe. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were once ubiquitous, and...
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
“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
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...
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
To Hear Your Banjo Play
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
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.
No Direction Home: 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...
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
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
Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her...
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
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...
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California....
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
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....
Gasland
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...
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
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
Pete Seeger at Home
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...
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
A concert featuring singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie. Performing from Austin, Texas, the folk-singer is joined by guest artists.
The Arlo Guthrie Show
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter,...
Festival
Junie Moon is in the hospital after her face has been disfigured by her deranged boyfriend. There she meets two other patients — Arthur, an...
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.
The Winding Stream
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
The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.
Chords of Fame
THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...
The Streets of Greenwood
After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, the writer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a reporter tries to help them fight for fair compensation.
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
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!
Sesame Street | Put Down the Duckie: An All-Star Musical Special
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
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
A warmhearted memorial to the folk singer whose songs galvanized organizers and guitar-pickers across the United States. Part biography, part...
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate...
The Internationale
A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
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
A look into those convicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee
Wasn't That a Time
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
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic...
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
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...
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
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...
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
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,...
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose...
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
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
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...
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone