Folk Music Movies

  • 2022
    To dress in Latvian signs

    To dress in Latvian signs

    To dress in Latvian signs

    02022HD

    The moment when the lights on the stage suddenly go out and the dancer finds himself completely alone in the digital environment, the way back to the...

    To dress in Latvian signs
  • 2004
    Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul

    Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul

    Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul

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    In Burma, many people believe in ghost spirits called NATs. They are said to possess the power to assist or devastate the lives of those who...

    Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul
  • 2017
    Leave the Saints Alone

    Leave the Saints Alone

    Leave the Saints Alone

    7.92017HD

    A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional...

    Leave the Saints Alone
  • 2013
    Ramón Ayala

    Ramón Ayala

    Ramón Ayala

    92013HD

    Marcos Lopez's first feature film explores the world and oeuvre of Argentine folk musician, Ramón Ayala. The movie also provides interviews...

    Ramón Ayala
  • 2021
    Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone

    Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone

    Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone

    02021HD

    Your gateway to an intimate set of songs performed in an isolated world eight stories underground. Different from a live show and separate from...

    Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone
  • 2019
    Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea

    Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea

    Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea

    02019HD

    A lyrical documentary about writer and street musician Roger Parham-Brown.

    Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea
  • 2004
    Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

    Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

    Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya

    02004HD

    Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed...

    Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya
  • 1955
    Rhythm and Sound

    Rhythm and Sound

    Rhythm and Sound

    6.51955HD

    National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.

    Rhythm and Sound
  • 2024
    HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara

    HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara

    HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara

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    HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...

    HAIYU: Rebel Singer Mariem Hassan and the Struggle for a Free Western Sahara
  • 2022
    Anderson Council

    Anderson Council

    Anderson Council

    02022HD

    Following a surprise hit song, the folk duo Joel and George set out to write new material for their first big show. The two butt heads in the...

    Anderson Council
  • 1970
    The River in Me

    The River in Me

    The River in Me

    01970HD

    Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people who crisscross the Yellow River to perform their...

    The River in Me
  • 1990
    The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance

    The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance

    The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance

    01990HD

    Produced by JVC in collaboration with a Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings editorial board of scholars and Multicultural Media, The JVC Anthology of...

    The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
  • 2007
    Jet Set

    Jet Set

    Jet Set

    02007HD

    The Serbian trash folk "Grand" production is attacked by aliens and a young hero folk singer named Boban Zdravkovic has to time travel with Sejo...

    Jet Set
  • 2013
    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    02013HD

    Filmed before a small studio audience in the bare style of some of the previous BBC music shows on which Thompson has appeared, this concert...

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre
  • 1991
    Appalachian Journey

    Appalachian Journey

    Appalachian Journey

    9.51991HD

    Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). ...

    Appalachian Journey
  • 1978
    John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg

    John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg

    John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg

    01978HD

    "Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show “Rockpalast” this DVD represents the earliest example of a complete Fahey concert...

    John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg
  • 1970
    Creature Fear

    Creature Fear

    Creature Fear

    01970HD

    In a small Wisconsin lake town, a poverty-stricken felon contracts Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after ingesting diseased venison. As his descent into...

    Creature Fear
  • 1980
    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    01980HD

    A fiddler's hand creates its own choreography is music is performed. This film is an attempt to share the dance. In the tradition and spirit of a...

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe
  • 2008
    The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America

    The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America

    The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America

    02008HD

    Follows folk blues singer Jon Konrad a.k.a. Possessed by Paul James on tour from Texas to Louisiana as he attempts to make enough money to supply for...

    The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America
  • 2004
    Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

    Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

    Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead

    02004HD

    Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses...

    Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead