Steve EarleFilmography

Occupation:
Actor, Composer (Music Score)

  • Leaves of Grass

    Actors: Edward Norton, Tim Blake Nelson, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss, Keri Russell

    Synopsis: Edward Norton handles dual acting duties in Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass, a comedic thriller that finds the thesp portraying identical twins on opposite sides of the social spectrum -- one being a free-wheeling criminal, while the other is a respected professor with an Ivy League background. Nelson Read More

    1/1/10

  • Labor Day

    Actors: Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Edwards, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, John McCain, Sarah Palin

    Synopsis: Filmmaker Glenn Silber examines a labor union that embodied the grassroots momentum of Obama's presidential campaign and played a pivotal role in his election. The documentary includes interviews with journalist Ted Koppel and Newsweek senior editor Jonathan Alter, as well as a number of Read More

    10/30/09

  • 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

    2009

  • 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

    2007

  • Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

    Synopsis: The celebrated singer and songwriter Steve Earle once said "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." Earle was hardly the only artist of note who loved Van Zandt's poetic, elliptical songs of love and Read More

    12/2/05

  • Return to Sin City: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

    Synopsis: Gram Parsons was one of the first musicians to combine the high lonesome ache of country music with the guitar-driven attitude of rock & roll, and few have ever done it better. While Parsons was highly regarded by his fellow musicians during his short life, he was little more than a cult figure Read More

    2004

  • Just an American Boy

    Crew: Composer (Music Score)

    Synopsis: In the fall of 2002, singer, songwriter and political activist Steve Earle released an album of songs written in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, entitled {^Jerusalem}. One of its songs, "John Walker's Blues" -- written from the perspective of John Walker Lindh, a Muslim Read More

    11/7/03

  • The Party's Over

    Actors: Philip Seymour Hoffman

    Synopsis: Actors and political activists come together to take a long, hard look at the State of the Union during the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in this documentary, a follow-up to 1993's The Last Party, in which actor Robert Downey Jr. followed the 1992 presidential campaign. In The Last Party 2000 Read More

    10/24/03

  • Kennedy Center Presents: The Irish Gala

    Synopsis: Hosted by actress Anjelica Huston and author Frank McCourt, Kennedy Center Presents: The Irish Gala is a celebration of Irish and Irish-American music, dance, and culture. The 90-minute program features performances by the following artists: Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Carlos Read More

    2001

  • Steve Earle & The Dukes: Transcendental Blues Live

    Synopsis: Singer and songwriter Steve Earle merges rock, country, folk, and blues with passion and streetwise intelligence in this concert video, recorded live on July 26, 2000, during a tour stop in Toronto. Earle and his band (including Eric "Roscoe" Ambel on guitar, and Will Rigby on drums) perform 15 Read More

    2000

  • Live From Austin TX: Steve Earle

    Synopsis: This video is part of the Live From Austin, Texas series which released full versions of concerts that were shown in a truncated form on the television series Austin City Limits. This release contains a September 12, 1986, show by singer/songwriter Steve Earle. The set list includes 17 numbers Read More

    1986

  • Heartworn Highways

    Actors: Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe

    Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker James Szalapski explores the more contemplative side of country music as he visits a handful of outstanding singers and songwriters, most of whom have chosen work outside the confines of the Nashville establishment. Heartworn Highways features performances from Townes Van Zandt Read More

    1981

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