Folk Music Movies
- 1970
Highland Home
Highland Home01970HD
A poignant tale of longing and loss is revealed when a timeworn journal transports a young girl to a place of enchanting wonders.
- 1977
Here We Come A-Wassailing
Here We Come A-Wassailing01977HD
A documentary on the surviving syncretic pagan midwinter customs of the British Isles, focusing on nine ritual celebrations ranging from the Moray...
- 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...
- 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...
- 1970
The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse
The Paper Kites: At The Roadhouse01970HD
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...
- 1991
Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania
Beyond the Forest: Hungarian Music in Transylvania91991HD
The dance house movement, which (illegally) brought folk music from the minority Hungarian Gypsies and peasants of Transylvania - now part of Romania...
- 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...
- 1970
Creature Fear
Creature Fear01970HD
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...
- 2020
Caterina
Caterina02020HD
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...
- 1975
Jean Carignan, Fiddler
Jean Carignan, Fiddler01975HD
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,...
- 2021
Pavel Žalman Lohonka „75“
Pavel Žalman Lohonka „75“02021HD
- 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...
- 2020
Talking Like Her
Talking Like Her02020HD
Connie Converse was a trailblazing singer-songwritter who bared her soul through thought-provoking music only to discover that 1950's America was...
- 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...
- 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
- 1985
Yesterday and Forever
Yesterday and Forever01985HD
A poetic film about ancient Lithuanian traditions and rituals.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...