Neil YoungFilmography

CSNY / Déjà Vu

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Screenwriter

Synopsis: Directed by Bernard Shakey, a long-time alias for Neil Young, CSNY Déjà Vu documents the beloved quartet's 2006 Freedom of Speech tour. The film includes a wealth of information about the Iraq War, and the film's anti-war stance gets as much attention as the group's musical performances. ~ Perry Read More

Farm Aid: 20th Anniversary Concert

Actors: Kate Voegele, Shannon Brown, The Supersuckers, Arlo Guthrie, Buddy Guy

Synopsis: This concert film captures the highlights of the 2007 Farm Aid Music festival, which marked the fundraiser's 20th anniversary. Some of the featured performers in the release include Emmylou Harris, Wilco, Widespread Panic, John Mellencamp, and more. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, 1969-1971

Actors: Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: The Best of the Johnny Cash Show captures a number of memorable performances from the variety show hosted by the country music legend. This collection includes performances by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Pete Seeger, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

Neil Young: Heart of Gold

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, Ben Keith, Spooner Oldham, Rick Rosas

Synopsis: In the fall of 2005, Neil Young returned to the sound and style of his iconic 1972 album {^Harvest} with {^Prairie Wind}, a set of ten songs which look to America's past and future accompanied by sweet but rough-hewn country-rock. The album was written and recorded after Young was diagnosed with a Read More

Saturday Night Live: Jack Black [3]

Actors: Jack Black, Neil Young

Synopsis: This 2005 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Jack Black and features musical guest Neil Young. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Greendale

Crew: Cinematographer, Composer (Music Score), Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Sarah White, Eric Johnson, Ben Keith

Synopsis: The director of Greendale, Bernard Shakey is much better known as the rock icon Neil Young. Greendale is a feature-length adaptation of Young's album of the same name. Following the lives of a family in a small town, the film's actors lip sync the dialogue as it appears in the songs, which are all Read More

Soundstage: Farm Aid 2003

Actors: Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Crazy Horse, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews, Sheryl Crow, Brooks & Dunn, Emmylou Harris, Los Lonely Boys, Hootie & the Blowfish, Billy Bob Thornton, Trick Pony

Willie Nelson: Still is Still Moving

Actors: Willie Nelson

Neil Young: Friends and Relatives - Red Rocks Live

Synopsis: Veteran rocker Neil Young presents a strong set of both old and new songs (and even performs the previously unrecorded "Fool for Your Love") in this video shot at Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater during Young's 2000 summer concert tour. Young is joined on-stage by a stellar array of legendary Read More

Saturday Night Live: John Goodman [11]

Actors: John Goodman, Neil Young

Synopsis: This 2000 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by John Goodman and features musical guest Neil Young. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Wing Commander

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Freddie Prinze, Jr., Saffron Burrows, Matthew Lillard, Tchéky Karyo, Jürgen Prochnow

Synopsis: Based on a popular series of video games, Wing Commander introduces us to an elite fighter squadron in the year 2654. The Earth confederation is at war with a vicious race called the Kilrathi. The Kilrathi have captured a navigational device which will allow them to jump through worm-holes in Read More

Neil Young: Silver & Gold

Synopsis: Neil Young is one of the most revered songwriters and performers in the history of rock & roll. Neil Young: Silver and Gold captures him giving a solo acoustic concert in Texas during a short 1999 tour. Young performs more than a dozen songs from every phase of his brilliant career, including Read More

Year of the Horse: Neil Young and Crazy Horse Live

Actors: Neil Young

Synopsis: Independent film hero Jim Jarmusch followed Neil Young & Crazy Horse during their 1996 world tour and captured it on handheld Super-8. Spliced with archival footage shot by Young and with current interviews from all band members and Young's father, the result is not so much an overview of the Read More

Dead Man

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Robert Mitchum

Synopsis: A dark, bitter commentary on modern American life cloaked in the form of a surrealist western, Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man stars Johnny Depp as William Blake, a newly-orphaned accountant who leaves his home in Cleveland to accept a job in the frontier town of Machine. Upon his arrival, Blake is told Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions

Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Jonathan Demme (whose credits include The Silence of the Lambs and Philadelphia) spent two days at Complex Recording Studios in Los Angeles, as Neil Young and Crazy Horse worked on songs for their album {^Sleeps With Angels}. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: The Complex Sessions was Read More

Philadelphia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards, Jr., Mary Steenburgen, Antonio Banderas, Ron Vawter, Joanne Woodward

Synopsis: At the time of its release, Jonathan Demme's Philadelphia was the first big-budget Hollywood film to tackle the medical, political, and social issues of AIDS. Tom Hanks, in his first Academy Award-winning performance, plays Andrew Beckett, a talented lawyer at a stodgy Philadelphia law firm. The Read More

Willie Nelson: The Big Six-0 - An All-Star Birthday Celebration

Synopsis: For his 60th birthday, country legend Willie Nelson decided to throw a party and invite a few of his closest friends to help him celebrate. Among others appearing are Emmylou Harris, Bob Dylan, Ray Charles, Neil Young, B.B. King, Paul Simon, and Waylon Jennings -- most joining Nelson on stage for Read More

MTV Unplugged: Neil Young

Synopsis: This episode of MTV: Unplugged originally aired on June 15th of 1993, and features a live acoustic performance from rock legend Neil Young. Young sings a wide range of songs, some of which include early hits such as "Mr Soul", which was originally performed during the time he spent with Buffalo Read More

Saturday Night Live: Tom Arnold [1]

Actors: Tom Arnold, Neil Young

Synopsis: This 1992 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Tom Arnold and features musical guest Neil Young. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Weld

Synopsis: This video captures the "Ragged Glory" tour such as "Hey Hey My My" and "Cortez the Killer," as well as titles from the "Ragged Glory" album, "Love to Burn" and "Farmer John." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory

Synopsis: Enjoy this selection of titles from the latest album by Neil Young and band including "Farmer John" and "Mansion on the Hill." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Love at Large

Actors: Tom Berenger, Elizabeth Perkins, Anne Archer, Ted Levine, Annette O'Toole

Synopsis: Director Alan Rudolph's 1989 model mood piece stars Tom Berenger as shabby private eye Harry Dobbs, who is hired by the mysterious Miss Dolan (Anne Archer). Dolan wants Dobbs to tail her abusive boyfriend, Rick (Neil Young). Dobbs immediately demonstrates his uncanny powers of detection by Read More

Neil Young: Freedom Alive - Acoustic Concert

Synopsis: A collection of titles by Neil Young in concert and on video including "After the Gold Rush," "This Note's for You" and "No More." ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Saturday Night Live: Bruce Willis

Actors: Bruce Willis, Neil Young

Synopsis: This 1989 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Bruce Willis and features musical guest Neil Young. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

'68

Actors: Eric Larson, Robert Locke, Sandor Tecsy, Anna Dukasz, Miran Kwun

Synopsis: Set in the late '60s in tumultuous San Francisco, a Hungarian immigrant family struggles to define their individual roles in the rapidly changing world around them. The father starts a cafe while one son becomes politically active, joining the Robert Kennedy campaign. A second son enlists in the Read More

Dominoes: An Uncensored Journey through the '60s

Synopsis: This musical extravaganza features the sights and sounds of the sixties and archival footage of some of the most brilliant musical performers, like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, CSNY, The Dead and many others - raw and uncensored. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Made in Heaven

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray, Ellen Barkin, Marj Dusay

Synopsis: Alan Rudolph directed this offbeat, boy-meets-girl romance in which boy dies, dead boy meets dead girl, dead boy loses dead girl, and dead boy tries to find dead girl again. The tale begins is a small Pennsylvania town, where Mike Shea (Timothy Hutton) dreams of escaping small town life and moving Read More

Hearts of Fire

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Bob Dylan, Rupert Everett, Fiona, Julian Glover, Suzanne Bertish

Synopsis: This uninspiring drama was unfortunately the last feature film directed by Richard Marquard and was released posthumously. Bob Dylan plays the retired and reclusive rock star (there's a stretch) Billy Parker who falls for aspiring rocker Molly McGuire (Fiona) and takes her under his wing on his Read More

Human Highway

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Neil Young, Russ Tamblyn, Dennis Hopper, Charlotte Stewart

Synopsis: Rock legend Neil Young directed this bizarre bit of sci-fi-accented satire under his nom de cinema Bernard Shakey, as well as starring as Lionel Switch, an amiable but half-bright auto mechanic who has a furious crush on Charlotte Goodnight (Charlotte Stewart), a waitress at the diner next Read More

Neil Young in Berlin

Actors: Neil Young

Synopsis: This 1982 concert video captures the last show of Young's European tour. The Berlin show features the Trans Band, comprising Ralph Molina, Ben Keith, Joe Lala, Bruce Palmer, and Nils Lofgren, and consists of ten songs, including the classics "Old Man" and "The Needle and the Damage Done." Other Read More

Out of the Blue

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Linda Manz, Sharon Farrell, Dennis Hopper, Raymond Burr, Don Gordon

Synopsis: Out of the Blue captures the turbulence of youth culture of the early '80s by presenting a three-person nuclear family that is about to implode. In a prologue, Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper), a school bus driver, is drunkenly distracted one day behind the wheel, resulting in a horrible accident. He Read More

Silence of the North

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Tom Skerritt, Gordon Pinsent, Jennifer McKinney, Donna Dobrijevic

Synopsis: Based on a true story, this film follows the trials and tragedies that befall Walter Reamer (Tom Skerritt) and his wife, Olive (Ellen Burstyn), as they struggle to create a home and raise a family in the brutal Canadian frontier of 1919. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Where the Buffalo Roam

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Peter Boyle, Bill Murray, Bruno Kirby, René Auberjonois, R.G. Armstrong

Synopsis: Based on the writings and experiences of "gonzo" journalist Hunter S. Thompson, Where the Buffalo Roam details the adventures of Thompson (Bill Murray) and his attorney (Peter Boyle), whose character is rewritten as Mexican-American rather than Samoan, as they pillage and plunder their way across Read More

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps

Actors: Ralph Molina, Billy Talbot

Synopsis: Don't be misled by the director's name; "Bernard Shakey" is really rock star Neil Young, who is also the center attraction of this music documentary. There's no plot, of course, just 103 minutes' worth of concert footage, filmed during Young's 1979 tour with his back-up band Crazy Horse. Musical Read More

The Last Waltz

Actors: Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Diamond, Emmylou Harris, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Neil Young, Eric Clapton

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's documentary of the 1976 final performance of the legendary Sixties rock group The Band is at once a show featuring some of the greatest rock performers of their generation and a bittersweet look back at an era that was just beginning to fade. As Scorsese guides the group through Read More

Journey Through the Past

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Synopsis: This musical documentary is a probing portrait of rock star Neil Young. The film begins in 1966, when Young was still with Buffalo Springfield, and concludes in "the present"-1972, that is. Also appearing are Neil Young's faithful companions Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Dewey Martin, David Crosby 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

The Strawberry Statement

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Bruce Davison, Kim Darby, James Coco, Murray MacLeod

Synopsis: This film is based on the James Simon Kunen book about student unrest on the Columbia University campus. Simon (Bruce Davison) joins the campus protest movement to socialize with the various hippie girls. When a violent police assault breaks up the protest, Simon's thoughts quickly turn from Read More

Neil Young: Live at the Riverboat - Toronto

Actors: Neil Young

Synopsis: Neil Young: Live at the Riverboat - Toronto captures a 1969 show by the soon-to-be living legend. The eleven song setlist includes "Sugar Mountain," "The Old Laughing Lady," and "Expecting to Fly." ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Changes

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Kent Lane, Michele Carey, Manuella Thiess, Jack Albertson, Marcia Strassman

Synopsis: Kent (Kent Lane) is a college-dropout-turned-drifter who travels South from Big Sur down the California coastline. His worried father (Jack Albertson) tries to bridge the ever-widening generation gap with his son, but Kent is born to wander through his life with no apparent sense of direction Read More