Folk Music Movies

Morocco is a land of ingratiating variety and intense contrast. Its people are as diverse as its topography. The cosmopolitan Atlantic coast fuses...

Filmed before a small studio audience in the bare style of some of the previous BBC music shows on which Thompson has appeared, this concert...

Through concerts and interviews, folk-progressive group Harmonium takes Quebec culture to California. This documentary full of colour and sound,...

A dedicated classical music tutor who keeps burning bridges with everyone in the name of art is unwilling to reconcile with his successful bouzouki...

In Burma, many people believe in ghost spirits called NATs. They are said to possess the power to assist or devastate the lives of those who...

Features Wagakki Band's concert held in January 2018 at Yokohama Arena. Features Yo Hitoto as guest.

The Forest Drum follows a monster looking to make friends with the other animals that live in the forest with him. While the animals are scared...

HAIYU interweaves Mariem Hassan’s music and her personal quest for her country’s independence with larger historical events dating back...

Paris To Kyiv’s Fragmenti recording was originally released in 2005, a sonic tapestry of ancient Ukrainian song fragments and contemporary...

Man of the people, taxi driver, Jean Carignan is above all else one of the world's greatest violinists. In his hands reels become complex,...

Folk music of the Sahara is an intoxicating experience of sight and sound captured among the Tuareg and Libyan people of North Central Africa. Filmed...

Eric Andersen is widely regarded as one of the most poetic songwriters that sprang from the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s. His artful...

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of English folk rock up to that time.

A single female voice sings of waiting in her garden for her ‘dark-eyed sailor’ to return from war, bearing the other half of their...

The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores the niche music genres which find an increasing...

A paraphrase on the folk tales about the outwitted Death. This one is a story of a folk musician who plays his violin so well that Death lights a new...

A poetic film about ancient Lithuanian traditions and rituals.

A short musical film on the Old Harp tradition from East Tennessee, shot around a gathering in a church of the Smoky Mountains

Recorded at Stallet in Stockholm, Tarabband delivers a richly textured journey through Arabic folk, Mediterranean rhythms and contemporary world...

A musical portrait of the ethnic minorities of the Crimean peninsula, it explores the sonic diversity from this unique land.