folk singers

Born into a patrician family, Pete Seeger was determined to make his own way, doing what he wanted to do. And what he wanted to do was make music. He also wanted to fight for justice, for racial equality, for the rights of labor, for world peace, and for a clean planet. He made his life a crusade for these causes, largely through music.

A fictionalized account of how an eleven-year-old girl, Elizabeth "Libba" Cotten, saved to buy her first guitar and composed the popular folksong "Freight Train.".

The Baroness, who heads this uniquely musical family, relates the adventures experienced in transplanting a large family from depressed Austria to their phenomenal success in America.

A biography of folk singer Pete Seeger. Draws on interviews with Seeger to explore his life, his music, and commitment to social justice.

Maria Augusta von Trapp explains how the Trapp Family Singers, immortalized in the musical "The Sound of Music," came to be, describing how she fell in love with Baron von Trapp, the widower for whom she worked as a governess, and how the family escaped the Nazis and began touring as a singing group.

A look at the life of controversial musician, activist, and environmentalist Pete Seeger, and how he used his songs to promote social change. Includes archival footage and interviews with Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Joan Baez, Arlo Guthrie, and more.

This film explores Guthrie's creative genius -- his life and music as well as lesser known talents like writing and painting. 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.

An illustrated biography of Woody Guthrie, composer of "This Land Is Your Land," and over three thousand other folk songs and ballads, telling about his travels throughout the U.S. in the first half of the twentieth century, and discussing how his experiences influenced his music.

Presents a portrait of the performer, composer, and activist through interviews with him, his friends and family.

Chronicles the life of writer, singer, and political activist Woody Guthrie, discussing his childhood during the Great Depression, the discrimination and exploitation of American migrants that he faced after traveling west in search of work, his friendships with other artists, his musical career, and other related topics.