folk music movies page 5

Transformations (1972)
6 / 10

Horror

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the women’s...

Leave the Saints Alone (2017)
7.9 / 10

Documentary

A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional...

Billy Bragg & Wilco: Man in the Sand (2005)
8 / 10

Documentary, Music

"Man in the Sand" is a 1999 music documentary that chronicles the collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco, which involved the musicians creating...

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada (2008)
6 / 10

Documentary, Music

Die Comedian Harmonists singen Volkslieder (1934)
0 / 10

Music

The Comedian Harmonists sing various German folk songs in a picturesque landscape.

Creature Fear (1969)
0 / 10

Crime, Horror, Thriller

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...

Bulgaria: Fire Dance Ritual (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary

Every year in June, the small Bulgarian village of Balgari celebrates St Constantine with a special ritual. Initiated ‘nestinari’ go into a...

The Waterboys: Live at Glastonbury 2015 (2015)
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Music

For true believers, Mike Scott will always be the man who invented and defined 1980s stadium rock, and then bailed out just as U2 and Simple Minds...

The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond (2014)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

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

Bob Dylan: Busy Being Born (2020)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

Few musicians have made an impact throughout the decades as seismic as Bob Dylan. Retrace his journey, from humble folk beginnings in Hibbing, to the...

If Not For You (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

A tribute film on Bob Dylan, depicting Calcutta's affinity with Dylan through cityscape and interviews of notable Indian musicians who were inspired...

My Prairie Home (2013)
6.7 / 10

Documentary, Music

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

Louisiana Blues (1993)
0 / 10

Documentary, Music

From the camera of celebrated French documentarians Jean-Pierre Bruneau and Jose Reynes, and in the tradition of The Buena Vista Social Club, comes...

Blues Run the Game: The Strange Life of Jackson C. Frank (2023)
0 / 10

Documentary, Drama

The untold story of Jackson C Frank, an American folk legend. His tragic life produced some of the most timeless folk music of our time.

The Three Pickers (2003)
5.7 / 10

Documentary, Music

For one historic evening, American music legends Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs joined forces as The Three Pickers, to film a concert for...

Jonathan Coulton - Best. Concert. Ever. (2009)
4.8 / 10

Music, Comedy

This live set, containing twenty of Jonathan Coulton’s most popular songs, was filmed in February 2008 in front of a sold out crowd at the Great...

Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home (2006)
0 / 10

Music, Documentary

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by...

Tri Yann : Trente Ans Au Zénith (2003)
8.3 / 10

Music

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

The Kingdom of Survival (2011)
0 / 10

Documentary, History

The Kingdom of Survival explores modern skepticism in America, challenges the status quo and uncovers provocative links between survivalist...

In the Steps of Forgotten Peoples (2021)
0 / 10

Documentary

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