Folk Music Movies

  • 2017
    Ole Paus – 70 Years

    Ole Paus – 70 Years

    Ole Paus – 70 Years

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    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...

    Ole Paus – 70 Years
  • 2015
    Heartworn Highways Revisited

    Heartworn Highways Revisited

    Heartworn Highways Revisited

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    On the 38th anniversary of the seminal music documentary, Heartworn Highways - a film that explored and captured the nascent roots of the Outlaw...

    Heartworn Highways Revisited
  • 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

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    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
  • 2007
    Folk Hibernia at the BBC

    Folk Hibernia at the BBC

    Folk Hibernia at the BBC

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    Celebrating the finest in Irish folk music with a compilation of performances taken from the BBC archives. Highlights include songs from The Clancy...

    Folk Hibernia at the BBC
  • 1970
    The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse

    The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse

    The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse

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    The 'At The Roadhouse' concert film follows intimate performances and sequences by The Paper Kites, where in July 2022, the band arrived in the small...

    The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse
  • 2013
    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

    Richard Thompson: Goodbye Television Centre

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    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
  • 2023
    Al compás

    Al compás

    Al compás

    02023HD

    A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.

    Al compás
  • 2019
    Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee

    Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee

    Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee

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    A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains

    Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee
  • 1970
    Creature Fear

    Creature Fear

    Creature Fear

    01970HD

    An adrift musician travels to his family's lake home for the weekend to record music with an ambitious local singer only to be hounded by a starving...

    Creature Fear
  • 2003
    Tri Yann : Trente Ans Au Zénith

    Tri Yann : Trente Ans Au Zénith

    Tri Yann : Trente Ans Au Zénith

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

    Tri Yann : Trente Ans Au Zénith
  • 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
  • 1980
    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

    Billy Doucette's Hornpipe

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    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
  • 1975
    Jean Carignan, Fiddler

    Jean Carignan, Fiddler

    Jean Carignan, Fiddler

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    Man of the people, taxi driver, Jean Carignan is above all else one of the world's greatest violinists. In his hands reels become complex,...

    Jean Carignan, Fiddler
  • 2020
    Talking Like Her

    Talking Like Her

    Talking Like Her

    02020HD

    Connie Converse was a trailblazing singer-songwritter who bared her soul through thought-provoking music only to discover that 1950's America was...

    Talking Like Her
  • 2023
    The Forest Drum

    The Forest Drum

    The Forest Drum

    02023HD

    The Forest Drum follows a monster looking to make friends with the other animals that live in the forest with him. While the animals are scared...

    The Forest Drum
  • 2006
    Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert

    Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert

    Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert

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    Courage & Patience & Grit is a DVD/CD set released by the band Great Big Sea on November 14, 2006. It contains video of the live performance...

    Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert
  • 2020
    Caterina

    Caterina

    Caterina

    02020HD

    A journey to the roots of Italian folk music through the images and the words of its greatest interpreter, Caterina Bueno. 'Caterina' is a portrait...

    Caterina
  • 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

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    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
  • 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