Pete Seeger Trailers
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Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
Most Popular Pete Seeger Trailers
Total trailers found: 65
24 February 1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic champion of the rights of the poor working man, the disfranchised and people of color.
17 January 2014
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
01 May 1961
This short documentary offers a portrait of life on a cattle ranch, for both its human and animal inhabitants.
23 October 1967
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966.
01 January 1959
This documentary short offers a nostalgic look at the steam locomotive as it passes from reality to history.
14 September 2012
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm.
17 May 2019
After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, the writer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a reporter tries to help them fight for fair compensation.
18 January 2009
A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the National Mall in Washington D.
14 September 2007
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.
01 January 2000
THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the relationship between music and social change, and to evaluate the uncertain fate of once thriving movements of the left.
04 November 2011
The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that chronicle the journey of America’s quintessential instrument—the banjo—from its African roots to the 21st century.
23 August 1991
Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal of Honor for his humanitarian efforts.
15 April 1997
When a young couple buys a contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much larger than what they originally bargained for.
19 November 2022
The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.
01 January 1947
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
17 September 2004
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
26 September 1996
Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage.
16 February 1990
Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill, Robeson’s career was cut short by Cold War anti-communist hysteria.
30 October 2007
A special concert celebrating the music of children's music entertainer Ella Jenkins, based on the Grammy award-winning album.
27 September 2023
“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger launched the Clearwater, a 19th-century-style sloop with a singing crew of musicians and activists.
20 August 1969
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the trash to the dump but finds it closed for the holiday, so he dumps the trash in the bottom of a ravine.
21 July 2005
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
01 March 2019
In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Bowl to pay homage to iconic folk songwriter Woody Guthrie.
11 May 1970
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the hospital, set up housekeeping together in a cottage where they support each other.
23 August 1978
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 Folk classics, across their long careers.
01 January 2001
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.
01 March 1966
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 document of of work songs by inmates of the Ellis Unit.
16 February 1984
Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.
08 July 2003
For some 30 years, they embodied "country blues" for folk music audiences around the globe. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were once ubiquitous, and as such tended to be taken for granted in the halcyon days of the 1960s blues rediscoveries.
30 April 1990
Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever.
01 January 1984
A warmhearted memorial to the folk singer whose songs galvanized organizers and guitar-pickers across the United States.
12 July 2006
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 everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to U2.
24 January 2010
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property.
31 December 1946
This film speaks to the need for solidarity between all maritime unions, vividly recounting the 1934 West Coast waterfront strike, which culminated in a police riot in which two workers were killed, and led to further strikes and greater solidarity.
05 January 1980
A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from around the countries of the continent.
01 January 1989
In this documentary, Pete Seeger is caught in a relaxed mood in and outside his cottage outside New g
05 September 1962
THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a cotton field in the Mississippi Delta.
09 July 1977
A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.
08 January 1964
This film documents work songs of a fishing community in Ghana
05 April 1960
On the first hot day of summer, an old farmer goes fishing just as he has done for many years on the West Branch of the Delaware River.
01 January 1988
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 people, the mines, and the great coal strikes of the twenties and thirties.
14 January 1962
A look into those convicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee
16 August 2000
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
04 October 1983
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
01 January 1971
A farmer wanted words to go with the tune he was playing when he saw a frog sitting on the bank of the stream.
18 January 2013
Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the '60s and early '70s. The film highlights some of the finest singer/songwriters of the day.
05 October 1988
The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable moments.
04 December 2002
The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
07 December 2007
An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.
15 March 2014
The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.
05 January 2011
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the issues of the 1960s and 70s.
07 March 1982
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
25 July 1965
Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here.
31 December 1989
Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and collaborators like Pete Seeger, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs, Mayor Ed Koch to reminisce.
01 April 2007
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
20 May 2002
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 "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leaves and blood at the root.
08 January 1988
Documentary on the life of Woody Guthrie, the travelling songwriter and singer who paved the way for the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
31 December 1945
Blues/Folk Performer Huddie Ledbetter (Leadbelly) speaks and performs several songs in various settings.
01 January 1962
An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed for the films.
01 December 2013
Big Bill Broonzy would inspire a generation of musicians, yet he was not the man they believed him to be.
