Folk Music Movies
- 2022
To dress in Latvian signs
To dress in Latvian signs02022HD
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...
- 2004
Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul
Nat Pwe: Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul02004HD
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...
- 2017
Leave the Saints Alone
Leave the Saints Alone7.92017HD
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional...
- 2013
Ramón Ayala
Ramón Ayala92013HD
Marcos Lopez's first feature film explores the world and oeuvre of Argentine folk musician, Ramón Ayala. The movie also provides interviews...
- 2021
Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone
Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone02021HD
Your gateway to an intimate set of songs performed in an isolated world eight stories underground. Different from a live show and separate from...
- 2019
Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea
Changes in the Ocean, Changes in the Sea02019HD
A lyrical documentary about writer and street musician Roger Parham-Brown.
- 2004
Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya
Folk Music of the Sahara: Among the Tuareg of Libya02004HD
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...
- 1955
Rhythm and Sound
Rhythm and Sound6.51955HD
National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.
- 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 Sahara02024HD
HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...
- 2022
Anderson Council
Anderson Council02022HD
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...
- 1970
The River in Me
The River in Me01970HD
Traversing 700,000 square kilometers over 700 days, the filmmakers bring the stories of five people who crisscross the Yellow River to perform their...
- 1990
The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance
The JVC Video Anthology of World Music and Dance01990HD
Produced by JVC in collaboration with a Smithsonian/Folkways Recordings editorial board of scholars and Multicultural Media, The JVC Anthology of...
- 2007
Jet Set
Jet Set02007HD
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...
- 2013
Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre
Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre02013HD
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...
- 1991
Appalachian Journey
Appalachian Journey9.51991HD
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). ...
- 1978
John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg
John Fahey: Live at Audimax Hamburg01978HD
"Shot live for TV by the legendary German music show “Rockpalast” this DVD represents the earliest example of a complete Fahey concert...
- 1970
Creature Fear
Creature Fear01970HD
In a small Wisconsin lake town, a poverty-stricken felon contracts Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease after ingesting diseased venison. As his descent into...
- 1980
Billy Doucette's Hornpipe
Billy Doucette's Hornpipe01980HD
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...
- 2008
The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America
The Folk Singer: A Tale of Men, Music & America02008HD
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...
- 2004
Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead
Jemaa El Fna: Morocco's Rendezvous of the Dead02004HD
Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses...