Joan BaezFilmography

Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound

Actors: Joan Baez

Synopsis: Surprisingly, before How Sweet the Sound, a full-length documentary had never chronicled decades in the life of Joan Baez, but this film corrects that oversight. This documentary delves into the career and impact of the musician and activist who helped define the 1960s and '70s. In its pursuit of Read More

Slacker Uprising

Actors: Viggo Mortensen, Joan Baez, Roseanne, Steve Earle, Eddie Vedder, Michael Moore

Synopsis: Opinionated documentary filmmaker Michael Moore takes an up-close look at the political leanings of college students in George W. Bush-era America with this effort shot during Moore's 60-city college campus tour in the months leading up to the 2004 election. The first feature-length film by a Read More

Pete Seeger: The Power of Song

Actors: Tom Paxton, Bob Dylan, Natalie Maines, Pete Seeger

Synopsis: The reflective documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song explores the legacy of revered American folk singer and activist Seeger - written and directed by filmmaker Jim Brown when Seeger was in his late '80s. In lieu of recounting the narrative of Seeger's life note-for-note, however, Brown uses Read More

American Experience: The Carter Family - Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Synopsis: This film documents the careers of the country music legends The Carter Family. Part of the American Experience series, this film utilizes archival footage, photographs that belonged to the descendants of the people documented, and narration by the Academy Award-winning actor Robert Duvall. Read More

The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg

Actors: Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, Ken Kesey, Norman Mailer, Dr. Timothy Leary

Synopsis: In 1955, poet Allen Ginsberg summed up the greatest fears of his generation in a landmark poem appropriately titled "Howl." As a result of that defining piece of prose, Ginsberg would become an icon of the Beat Generation. Inspired by Ginsberg's powerful personality and captivating charisma as a Read More

Soundstage: Joan Baez, Gillian Welch & Nickel Creek

Actors: Joan Baez, Gillian Welch, Nickel Creek

Smothered: The Great Smothers Brothers Censorship Wars

Actors: Bill Maher, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers, Joan Baez, Rob Reiner

Synopsis: With their blend of folk singing and stand-up comedy, Tom and Dick Smothers became a popular nightclub attraction in the early 1960's and were frequent guests on many television variety shows of the day. In 1967, in a bid to win younger viewers away from NBC's perennially popular western series Read More

Don't Look Back

Actors: Marianne Faithfull, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Donovan

Synopsis: In 1965, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker accompanied Bob Dylan to England to make a film about the singer/songwriter's British tour. At the time, no one could have known how fortuitous Pennebaker's timing would prove to be. Within a few months of this tour, Dylan would forsake his role as The Conscience Read More

Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival

Synopsis: For about a year after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, it seemed as though everyone wanted to stage a rock festival. However, The Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont free concert (documented in the film Gimme Shelter) forever tarnished the image of the rock festival in the U.S., while in Read More

Woodstock: Lost Performances

Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Crosby, Stills & Nash

Synopsis: Woodstock: The Lost Performances is a video collection of highlights from the 120 miles of footage used to make the original 1970 film. Included here are "Work Me Lord" by Janis Joplin, "We Shall Overcome" by Joan Baez, and "Let's Go Get Stoned" by Joe Cocker. This compilation also contains Read More

Berkeley in the Sixties

Actors: Mario Savio, Clark Kerr, Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg

Synopsis: Berkeley in the Sixties takes a fond, if not always loving, look back at the epicenter of leftist political activism during the seventh decade of the 20th century. The free speech movement caught national attention in 1964 when the University of California tried to suppress activists distributing Read More

To Kill a Priest

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Ed Harris, Joanne Whalley, Joss Ackland, David Suchet

Synopsis: One of the first films by Polish director Agnieszka Holland to gain international acclaim, this drama is a joint French-American production based loosely on the real-life story of the dissident Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko. In the early 1980s, as the democracy and labor movement known as Read More

Human Rights Now!

Synopsis: In 1988, Amnesty International celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a six-week, 20-concert world tour headlined by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band, Peter Gabriel, Sting, Tracy Chapman, and Youssou N’Dour. This HBO concert film captured the tour on Read More

Folk City: 25th Anniversary Concert

Synopsis: A music performance video from Greenwich Village's Folk City club. See performances by many modern folk singers, including The Roches, Roger McGuinn, Odetta, Tom Paxton, Melanie, Richie Havens, Suzanne Vega, Violent Femmes, Arlo Guthrie, Eric Anderson and Joan Baez. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'

Synopsis: Rare filmclips of folksinger Woody Guthrie at work and at play provide the highlights of this 74-minute documentary. Hard Travelin' places Guthrie's musical contributions within the context of their times, utilizing harrowing footage of the devastation wreaked by the Depression and the Dust Bowl. Read More

In Our Hands

Actors: Meryl Streep, Dr. Helen Caldicott, Benjamin Spock

Synopsis: This compilation documentary covers the massive anti-nuclear peace march held in New York City on June 12, 1982, including the preparations that led up to the march and interviews with concerned and knowledgeable people on the issue of peace, as well as Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb Read More

Sag Nein!

Actors: Joan Baez, Christoph Bantzer, Harry Belafonte

Synopsis: There was a large, Woodstock-style peace concert held in Hamburg in 1983, and this documentary records the performances and the statements made by many international notables, including Joan Baez, Harry Belafonte, and Floyd Westerman from the U.S., Udo Lindenberg from Germany, Cieslav Niemen from Read More

Choices of the Heart

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Martin Sheen, Mike Farrell, Rene Enriquez, Pamela Bellwood

Synopsis: Choices of the Heart (aka In December the Roses Will Bloom Again) recounts the life and death of Irish lay missionary Jean Donovan. Together with three American nuns, the 27-year-old Donovan (here played by Melissa Gilbert) was murdered in El Salvador in 1980. Constructed in a complex Read More

The Music of Man [Video Series]

Synopsis: This eight part series follows the roles music has played in the development of mankind's culture and societies. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Renaldo and Clara

Actors: Bob Dylan, Sara Dylan, Joan Baez, Ronnie Hawkins, Ronee Blakely

Synopsis: Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he, his wife Sara Dylan, along with Joan Baez, Allen Ginsberg, and other counterculture figures perform philosophically based improvisational pieces. During the skits, Dylan Read More

All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music: Go Down, Moses! (Folk "War Songs")

Actors: Arlo Guthrie, Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Country Joe McDonald, James Simmons

Synopsis: This documentary about the history of popular music in America focuses on folk music, tracing its roots back to the American War of Independence, when the music was a mode of expression for the rebellious American spirit. Artists featured in concert footage and interviews include Country Joe Read More

Last Rally

Synopsis: Examines the death of a turbulent and controversial event, the anti-Vietnam rally featuring musical performances from folk singers and an interview with William Kunstler. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Banjoman

Actors: Earl Scruggs, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Joan Baez

Synopsis: The legendary co-founder of bluegrass, Earl Scruggs (the other co-founder was his longtime partner, Lester Flatt) is seen performing here with the Earl Scruggs Review and a number of other performers, in a concert given in his honor in 1975. The performers who gathered to honor him include The Read More

Cathode Ray Theatre

Synopsis: Narrated by Tom DeWitt, this theatrical video explores the reality that is created in illusion in several short scenes. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Sing Sing Thanksgiving

Actors: Joan Baez, B.B. King, Mimi Farina

Synopsis: This music documentary records a concert given on November 23, 1972, at Sing Sing prison in upstate New York. Among the performers shown are the Voices of East Harlem, Joan Baez, B.B. King, Jimmy Walker, and Mimi Farina. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

B.B. King and Joan Baez: Live at Sing Sing

Actors: B.B. King, Joan Baez

Sacco and Vanzetti

Crew: Singer, Songwriter

Synopsis: One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in the Italian Sacco and Vanzetti. There is no denying that Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volontè) were anarchists. But it is highly Read More

Celebration at Big Sur

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles the 1969 Big Sur Festival and features the folk-rock tunes of many of the era's most influential musicians. Included is Joan Baez singing "I Shall Be Released" and "Song for David." ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Dynamite Chicken

Actors: Joan Baez, John Lennon, Richard Pryor, Andy Warhol

Synopsis: This film contains a collection of commercials, interviews, and music featuring Joan Baez, Richard Pryor, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Lenny Bruce, Andy Warhol, and Allen Ginsberg. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Woodstock

Actors: Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, The Who, Crosby, Stills & Nash

Synopsis: This iconic musical documentary covers the three-day 1969 music festival on the property of Max Yasger's farm that symbolized the late 1960s in terms of musical, social and political ideology of the era. American audiences are introduced to Ten Years After, featuring guitar great Alvin Lee. Jimi Read More

Scruggs

Carry it On

Synopsis: This documentary interview folksinger Joan Baez and husband David Harris, who will soon begin a three year prison term for draft evasion. Harris gives his philosophy about the state of America and the revolution. Baez embarks on a national tour singing folk songs and calling attention to her Read More

Festival

Actors: Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Donovan, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: An invaluable record of the Newport Folk Festival, the most important annual showcase for roots music from the late '50s through the next decade, Festival packs an amazing amount of information into its brief running time. Director Murray Lerner assembled footage he and several other Read More

The Big T.N.T. Show

Actors: Roger Miller, Joan Baez

Synopsis: Future Goodbye Columbus director Larry Peerce was still only a few years out of the University of North Carolina when he directed The Big T.N.T. Show. This sequel to 1964's The T.A.M.I. Show is, like its predecessor, little more than a concert film, but a well photographed one (originally on Read More

Armageddon Express

Synopsis: This documentary is a tribute to peace activists, containing two separate films on peace protests. The first, "The Healing of Brian Wilson" tells the story of a protester whose legs were cut off by a train carrying weapons. The second film, "The Arms Race Within", focuses on activists who are Read More

Earl Scruggs: The Bluegrass Legend - Family & Friends

Synopsis: Country music and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs offers a memorable concert that finds him performing alongside such music superstars as Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, The Byrds, and the Morris Brothers in this release of a stage show featuring such hits as "Nine Pound Hammer", "The Last Thing on my Mind" Read More