1. Highland Home
A poignant tale of longing and loss is revealed when a timeworn journal transports a young girl to a place of enchanting wonders.
2. Yellow Earth (黄土地)
A communist soldier is sent to a remote region of China in order to collect folk songs. Staying with a peasant family , he discovers a community whose way of life is completely alien to him, but he gradually wins their trust…
It has an average vote of 7.2 on TMDB.
3. ¡Folk! Una mirada a la música tradicional de Castilla y León
Documentary about the folk scene around Castilla y León
4. Ramón Ayala
Marcos Lopez's first feature film explores the world and oeuvre of Argentine folk musician, Ramón Ayala. The movie also provides interviews with contemporary musicians from Argentina, who were influenced by Ayala. At the same time, the picture portrays the different landscapes of the country: the jungle and soil of Misiones , the folk festival in Córdoba and the urban environment of Buenos Aires; paying special attention to those places where Ayala's music circulate. One of the most famous Argentine photographers, Lopez takes advantage of the cinematographic medium to stamp his visual aesthetics, which offer a very ironic, yet loving, approach to Argentina.
It has an average vote of 9 on TMDB.
5. John Denver: Country Boy
This BBC documentary chronicles the life of folk/soft-rock singer John Denver through his rise with The Chad Mitchell Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary, his subsequent stardom, his popularity decline, and his tragic death at age 53.
It has an average vote of 8.2 on TMDB.
6. Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's schon lang (Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's schon lang)
(Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's schon lang)
It has an average vote of 7.375 on TMDB.
7. No Roads In
An abandoned homestead, twelve songs and five days to cut an album. A journey into how the power of music transforms our life.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
8. Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival - The Other Side of the Mirror
An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.
It has an average vote of 8.1 on TMDB.
9. Big Easy Express
Indie folk heroes Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Tennessee’s Old Crow Medicine Show, and Britain’s acclaimed Mumford & Sons, climbed aboard a beautiful vintage train in California, setting out for New Orleans, Louisiana on a “tour of dreams”. The resulting film from this journey is nothing short of magical. Part road movie and part concert film, BIG EASY EXPRESS bears witness to the birth of a new musical era. With poignancy and beauty, Malloy documents these incredible musicians as they ride the rails and wow the crowds, from Oakland… to New Orleans.
It has an average vote of 6.853 on TMDB.
10. The Genius of Bert Jansch: Folk, Blues & Beyond
Interviews and rare archive footage weave together performances from a landmark multi-artist concert at the Royal Festival Hall in London, celebrating the songs and artistry of the great folk-blues troubadour Bert Jansch.
11. The Three Pickers
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 public television. The music they made before a North Carolina audience is as relaxed as a front porch picking session. Informed by the skill and good humor of the three master musicians who contributed so much to the creation and evolution of bluegrass music. With special guest Alison Krauss.
It has an average vote of 5.7 on TMDB.
12. Gordon Lightfoot: BBC Four In Concert
A classic concert by Gordon Lightfoot from 1972, accompanied by Red Shea and Richard Haynes. They perform songs including Summer Side of Life, Saturday Clothes, That's What You Get For Loving Me, Affair on 8th Avenue, If I Could Read Your Mind, Steel Rail Blues, Ten Degrees and Getting Colder, Early Morning Rain, Me and Bobby McGee, Minstrel of the Dawn and Canadian Pacific Trilogy.
13. The Mountain Minor
Life-worn Charlie struggles with leaving his present life and family in Ohio to return to his childhood Kentucky home and the music and lifestyle that once defined him. But first he must pass his musical heritage on to his grand-kids.
It has an average vote of 4.75 on TMDB.
14. Wagakki Band: Vocalo Zanmai Dai Ensokai (和楽器バンド ボカロ三昧大演奏会)
Features Wagakki Band's concert "Vocalo Zanmai Dai Ensokai" held at Akasaka Blitz on August 27, 2014.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
15. Amigo the Devil ─ Caving In: Alive and Alone
Your gateway to an intimate set of songs performed in an isolated world eight stories underground. Different from a live show and separate from recorded material, this raw and honest stream promises to be a unique one-of-a-kind experience.
16. Die Comedian Harmonists singen Volkslieder (Die Comedian Harmonists singen Volkslieder)
The Comedian Harmonists sing various German folk songs in a picturesque landscape.
17. Joni Mitchell, le spleen et la colère (Joni Mitchell, le spleen et la colère)
Joni Mitchell has been called the queen of folk music and one of the biggest pop stars of the 60s and 70s. Even today, her lyrics and unique guitar style continue to inspire new generations of singers and songwriters.
It has an average vote of 8 on TMDB.
18. Blues Run the Game: The Strange Tale of Jackson C. Frank
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.
19. The Waterboys: Live at Glastonbury 2015
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 were hitting their stride. He immersed himself in Irish folk music, releasing the rollicking Fisherman’s Blues and Room to Roam albums to huge acclaim. Since then he has recorded and toured often, under his own name and the band’s. He also set 20 of WB Yeats’s poems to music for a theatrical presentation called An Appointment With Mr. Yeats, so expect a broad range of very different musical ideas at what has to be their seventh Glastonbury, unless you count the three performances in 2007 separately, in which case it’s their ninth appearance at Worthy Farm.
20. Leave the Saints Alone (Lascia stare i santi)
A journey through Italy across a century of popular religious devotion. Ancient and more recent saints, white and black Madonnas, devotional processions... are the expression of a need for the sacred that seems very distant from our way of being, but perhaps is not that distant at all. Today, especially in the South, but with some “isolated” locations in the North, popular faith is still a very real thing, which finds its finest expression in song and in music.
It has an average vote of 7.9 on TMDB.