Folk Music Movies
- 2017
ANA
ANA7.32017HD
- 1964
Nightsong
Nightsong01964HD
A portrait of the Chicago Near-North nightlife scene in the mid-1960s, centering around the struggles and romantic desires of an African American...
- 2020
Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual
Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual02020HD
Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go...
- 1955
Rhythm and Sound
Rhythm and Sound6.51955HD
National folk dances performed by "Tanec" folk dancers) from Skopje.
- 2023
The Forest Drum
The Forest Drum02023HD
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...
- 2006
Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert
Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea in Concert02006HD
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...
- 2023
Al compás
Al compás02023HD
A portrait of the Arab musicians Bahaa al Jomaa and Yazan Ibrahim.
- 2015
The Sfroos - Viaggio nella musica di Lombardia
The Sfroos - Viaggio nella musica di Lombardia02015HD
- 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...
- 2019
Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee
Old Harp Singing of East Tennessee02019HD
A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains
- 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...
- 2007
Folk Hibernia at the BBC
Folk Hibernia at the BBC6.52007HD
Celebrating the finest in Irish folk music with a compilation of performances taken from the BBC archives. Highlights include songs from The Clancy...
- 1964
American Folk-Blues Festival: The Blues and Gospel Train
American Folk-Blues Festival: The Blues and Gospel Train01964HD
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...
- 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...
- 1992
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers at The Ryman
Emmylou Harris & The Nash Ramblers at The Ryman01992HD
At the Ryman is a 1992 live album by Emmylou Harris and her then-newly formed acoustic backing band, The Nash Ramblers, recorded at the Ryman...
- 2019
The Mountain Minor
The Mountain Minor4.82019HD
Life-worn Charlie struggles with leaving his present life and family in Ohio to return to his childhood Kentucky home and the music and lifestyle...
- 2007
The American Folk Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-1966
The American Folk Blues Festival: The British Tours 1963-196672007HD
In 1962, a group of legendary American blues musicians embarked on a series of tours to the United Kingdom. Footage from these classic concerts,...
- 2006
Vamp In Symphony With The Norwegian Radio Orchestra
Vamp In Symphony With The Norwegian Radio Orchestra3.52006HD
Here is Vamp's big live concert at Rockefeller with the Norwegian Radio Orchestra. This is a pure hit parade with one of Norway's most popular bands:...
- 1972
Who Were the Ones?
Who Were the Ones?01972HD
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and...
- 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...