Chords of Fame (1984)

Anos após a morte do seu marido que era um cantor famoso, Hannah (Rebecca Hall) ainda não aceitou por completo a vida sem ele na pequena cidade onde mora. Andrew (Jason Sudeikis) é um escritor de Nova York que está na cidade para escrever uma biografia sobre o falecido marido de Hannah. Com ideias divergentes sobre a morte do cantor, os dois passam a se conhecer melhor e cooperar para lembrar a história dele.

Após 20 anos de sua estréia como calouros, o trio Folksmen (Guest como Alan Barrows, McKean como Jerry Palter e Shearer como Mark Shubb) reúne-se novamente nos anos 80 nos mais variados festivais de folk.

Mock documentary about an upstart candidate for the U.S. Senate written and directed by actor Tim Robbins. Bob Roberts is a folksinger with a difference: He offers tunes that protest welfare chiselers, liberal whining, and the like. As the filmmakers follow his campaign, Robbins gives needle-sharp insight into the way candidates manipulate the media.

Um homem chega a uma pequena taberna na aldeia de montanha. Ele está perdido em memórias ao som de pansori cantadas pelo dono da taverna. Em sua memória, ele é jovem e Yu-bong (Kim Myung-kon), uma cantora pansori vem para a aldeia. Uma mulher da aldeia, a mãe de Dong-ho (Kim Kyu-chul), se apaixona por Yu-bong e deixa a vila com Dong-ho e Yubong. Dong-ho e sua mãe, Yu-bong e sua filha Song-hwa (Oh Jeong-hae). Mas a mãe de Dong-ho passa longe de dar à luz a um bebê. Yu-bong ensina pansori de Song-hwa e percussão para Dong-ho. Em seguida, a guerra irrompe e se torna mais difícil viver.

Conta a história de um soldado comunista que é enviado para o interior do país, com a missão de pesquisar e aprender canções tradicionais e populares. Ele se hospeda com uma família de camponeses e descobre muito mais do que simples canções. Primeiro filme de Chen Kaige, de Adeus Minha Concubina (1993), O Imperador e o Assassino (1999) e A Promessa (2005).

Sadie looks up to her older sister Georgia, a successful folk singer who's happily married with children, but can't break out of the bar-band circuit and hit the big time she desperately covets. It's in part due to her attraction to drugs and booze, and also to her own unwise choice in men. Finally, though, Sadie's Achilles heel is a rough, unlovely voice very different than her sister's crowd-pleasing singing.

Live concert from Mafalda Veiga, recorded at Coliseu, Lisboa.

An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.

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.

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

Story of Lepa Brena and her band, and their adventures during one of the tours through Yugoslavia.

The manager of a company gets in trouble when he cannot pay his workers. The billions were spent on a football stadium which is empty now, and the bank did not approve new credits for the meaningless investments. Maybe the stadium will get filled during the concert of popular singer Lepa Brena.

Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artists Pete Seeger.

An intimate documentary about the life and times of Swiss poet and folk singer Mani Matter (1936-1972), seen from his friends' perspective.

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. Originally blowing out of the Dust Bowl in Depression-era America, he blended vernacular, rural music and populism to give voice to millions of downtrodden citizens. Guthrie's music was politically leftist, uniquely patriotic and always inspirational.

Jag är inte beredd att dö än (I'm Not Yet Ready to Die) is a documentary that follows Laleh Pourkarim—one of Sweden's most celebrated musicians—over two years time. Laleh takes pains to maintain her privacy in spite of her popularity. This film is a rare opportunity for fans to glimpse her daily life, from her hometown of Hammarkullen to settings abroad.

In this intimate stage performance from 2011, Tanita Tikaram performs 13 of her songs in Basel, Switzerland: Cathedral Song, Wonderful Shadow, Little Sister Leaving Town, All Things to You, Good Tradition, Poor Cow, Valentine Heart, I Might Be Crying, Make the Day, Twist in My Sobriety, Dust on My Shoes, One Kiss, and As I Love You.

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.

The Odyssey of director Radomir Belacevic who leaves his native village on his faithful horse named Knight and sets out to the capital trying to put his drama on the National Theatre's program, allegedly backed by foreign investors, too. Seduced by flashy lights of the city and beauty of metropolitan women, his Don Quixotean mission takes a different route and he becomes a modern Ulysses who forgets his roots and assimilates with the urban jungle.

Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.