Music Films

Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.

"Amen!" explores the rich traditions, historical significance, and meaning of Black church music in a concert film, recorded before a live audience at the Second Baptist Church in…

Doc & Merle reaches deep into the relationship between Doc and Merle Watson. It gives an historical overview of their evolution as musicians and explores the special bond…

In the Moment introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, bertsolari poets, extempo and freestyle rap artists from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal,…

A travelogue study of Cajun and Creole music and culture, circa 1972: a mythical land, its people, their ancient French language and most of all their wonderful musical…

A look at Cajun and Zydeco music that was started in Louisiana. Many artists are featured in the film.

Filmmaker Nicholas Doob's road trip across Amerca. Performers: Pork Chop (New Orleans), Arthur C. Brenner (Savannah), Bongo Joe (San Antonio), John Wood/Rodney Gregory/ Floyd Bell…

Eleven groups in eight days. A marathon recording session in a makeshift storefront studio in a 100-year-old building in the tiny Eastern North Carolina town of Fountain. Once the…

Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in…

The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…

People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and motivations as they share both…

Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…

This musical portrait of immigrant clarinetist Pericles Halkias and the Epirot-Greek community explores the aspirations and ambivalences of Greek-Americans.

George "Kid Shiek" Colar and the Olympia Brass Band are featured in this rare film about New Orleans Jazz, directed by Frank DeCola and photographed by Tom Davenport.