Pete Seeger Filmes

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

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

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.

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...

Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional...

A special concert celebrating the music of children's music entertainer Ella Jenkins, based on the Grammy award-winning album.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.

On the first hot day of summer, an old farmer goes fishing just as he has done for many years on the West Branch of the Delaware River. A young boy,...