Folk Music Movies

The Comedian Harmonists sing various German folk songs in a picturesque landscape.

Blending intimate voice-over with the fractured memories of a 1970s folksinger, IN THE EVER follows Sam Ellis, a mechanic, whose songs written for...

A surreal journey into singer José González’s inner world of thoughts and shadows. Staged with dark humour in the picturesque...

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go...

The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song will honor either a songwriter, interpreter, or singer/songwriter whose career reflects...

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...

This television special is a first for the reclusive singer with the BBC documentary gaining new interviews with Young, nine months apart in New York...

Tri Yann's 2001 concert at the Zenith Arena in Paris celebrating the group's 30th Anniversary.

Norwegian musician Ole Paus turns 70 years old and is celebrated by a long line of artist friends who sing his songs in the Oslo Opera House in...

Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of...

In this interview, conducted for the Criterion Collection in 2014, Elijah Wald, who collaborated with folksinger Dave Van Ronk on his memoir, The...

The legend of Jack Hardy and the Songwriter's Exchange tell the story of Greenwhich Village folk Icon Jack Hardy, and the folk scene that he helped...

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...

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted...

How the Fiddle Flows follows Canada's great rivers west along the fur-trading route of the early Europeans. The newcomers introduced the fiddle to...

The main protagonists of this slow-paced film are abandoned or suspended spaces associated with the production, distribution, and viewing of cinema...

A 16 minute short comprising 2 acts of a 1964 event where an innovative group of musicians performed on a real railroad track. The audience on one...

Songs: Everyday, That's Why I'm Here, Only One, Frozen Man, On the 4th of July, Whenever You're Ready, Raised Up Family, Mexico, Steamroller Blues,...

GrammyAward-winning performer David Holt introduces viewers to modern masters of traditional music in the Southern mountains and remembers the greats...

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