Alan Lomax Movies
- 1959
Green Mansions
Green Mansions5.61959HD
A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the...
- 1990
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl
The Ballad of Ewan MacColl01990HD
1990 BBCTV documentary on the life of the late celebrated folk singer, playwright and political activist
- 2004
Lomax the Songhunter
Lomax the Songhunter6.32004HD
Alan Lomax (1915-2002) was a song collector who recorded ordinary people, who gave their heart and soul in front of his microphone. The film maker...
- 2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home02006HD
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...
- 1947
To Hear Your Banjo Play
To Hear Your Banjo Play4.51947HD
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
- 1991
Appalachian Journey
Appalachian Journey9.51991HD
Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). ...
- 1953
Oss Oss Wee Oss
Oss Oss Wee Oss01953HD
Padstow, a fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, celebrates May Day with an ancient custom: two osses (hobby-horses) dance through the town...
- 1979
The Land Where the Blues Began
The Land Where the Blues Began01979HD
An exploration of the musical and social origins of the blues, shot on location in Mississippi in 1978 by Alan Lomax, John Bishop, and Worth Long in...
- 1977
Step Style
Step Style01977HD
Alan Lomax and his associates, beginning in the late 1950s undertook a monumental study of the relationship between style in song and dance...
- 2012
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass
Ballads, Blues & Bluegrass02012HD
In the early 1960s, when Greenwich Village was bursting with a folk music revival, the Friends of Old Time Music made it their mission to introduce...
- 1976
Dana Can Deal
Dana Can Deal01976HD
Three separate events: the birth of a litter of pups at a British reform school for delinquent minors in 1946; a dentist's convention in Cincinnati...
- 1990
Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now
Jazz Parades: Feet Don't Fail Me Now01990HD
A celebration of New Orleans' musical culture — from its piano bars and barrelhouses to brass bands and street parades, with their colorful,...
- 1991
Cajun Country
Cajun Country01991HD
The bayous of Louisiana have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural gumbo. Cajun...
- 1991
Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old
Dreams and Songs of the Noble Old01991HD
An examination of the talents and wisdom of elderly musicians, singers, and story-tellers, who perform not for fame or fortune but to preserve and...
- 1974
Dance and Human History
Dance and Human History01974HD
Introduces the work of Alan Lomax and his colleagues in developing choreometrics, a cross-cultural method of studying the relationship of dance style...