Folk Music Movies

Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London,...

In this interview, conducted for the Criterion Collection in 2014, Elijah Wald, who collaborated with folksinger Dave Van Ronk on his memoir, The...

A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwilling to reconcile with his successful bouzouki...

A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the stretches of rural Alberta that once constituted...

Jesse Welles performs his album "Devil’s Den" with his live band in an Arkansas cabin, filmed seamlessly in one continuous shot

An abandoned homestead, twelve songs and five days to cut an album. A journey into how the power of music transforms our life.

The legend of Jack Hardy and the Songwriter's Exchange tell the story of Greenwhich Village folk Icon Jack Hardy, and the folk scene that he helped...

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...

Macedonian national folk dances performed by "Tanec" - a cultural and artistic society from Skopje.

While flying to the first stop on their latest tour, the four members of the Australian music group The Seekers recall in flashback the origins of...

Unustatud rahvad (1970 - 1989) by Estonian composer Veljo Tormas is based upon six Balto-Finnic peoples traditions. Collegium Musicale choir brought...

When aliens attack a turbo-folk festival in Stepojevac, Boban Zdravkovic, having narrowly escaped the massacre, sets out on a mission of revenge for...

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

Tarabband’s concert at the 2021 Celebrating Our Diversity Festival presents the Malmö-based group’s distinctive meeting of Middle...

A celebration of the musical career of Norwegian singer-songwriter Lillebjørn Nilsen, featuring archive footage from his career from the...

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...

A documentary portraying the life of Norwegian folk singer Lillebjørn Nilsen. Lillebjørn's talent brought him into the limelight as a...

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful...

The popular singer and folk musician Ingebjørg Bratland performs her music on the Frognerseteren Amfi in Oslo, August 11th 2023.

The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores the niche music genres which find an increasing...