Pete Seeger Movies

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

The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.

Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare...

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created...

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...

The Family of musician Peter Seeger and filmmaker Toshi Seeger celebrate the season of Christmas by making home made wrapping paper. Their daughter...

Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter,...

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

A Sigh and a Wish tells the story of pioneer folklorist Helen Creighton and of the enduring appeal of her remarkable collections of song and story....

In this documentary, Pete Seeger is caught in a relaxed mood in and outside his cottage outside New York in an excellent video produced by Jim Downing

“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk...

This film speaks to the need for solidarity between all maritime unions, vividly recounting the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, which culminated...

Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose...

This film documents work songs of a fishing community in Ghana

Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.

THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a...

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

Full concert recorded live at Wolf Trap, VA for PBS broadcast. Arlo and Pete are joined onstage by the band Shanandoah on many of their well-loved...

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...

Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working...