Movies: Sam Green

  • 2002
    The Weather Underground

    The Weather Underground (2002)

    The Weather Underground

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    The remarkable story of The Weather Underground, radical activists of the 1970s, and of radical politics at its best and most disastrous....

    The Weather Underground
  • 2023
    32 Sounds

    32 Sounds (2023)

    32 Sounds

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    Explores the elemental phenomenon of sound and its power to bend time, cross borders, and profoundly shape our perception of the world around us....

    32 Sounds
  • 2011
    The Universal Language

    The Universal Language (2011)

    The Universal Language

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    The Universal Language is a new documentary from Academy Award-nominated director Sam Green (The Weather Underground). This 30-minute film traces the history of Esperanto, an artificial language that was created in the late 1800s by a Polish eye doct...

    The Universal Language
  • 2013
    Love Letter to the Fog

    Love Letter to the Fog (2013)

    Love Letter to the Fog

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    Love Letter to the Fog
  • 2017
    This is What the Future Looked Like

    This is What the Future Looked Like (2017)

    This is What the Future Looked Like

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    This Is What the Future Looked Like is a documentary about the work of architect and futurist Buckminster Fuller, using his geodesic domes as the visual environment....

    This is What the Future Looked Like
  • 2020
    7 Sounds

    7 Sounds (2020)

    7 Sounds

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    How can a sound make you cry, or make your hair stand on end? Can sound be political?...

    7 Sounds
  • 2019
    And with Him Came the West

    And with Him Came the West (2019)

    And with Him Came the West

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    Wyatt Earp, one of the most famous lawmen and gamblers of the Old West, is the inspiration behind decades of Hollywood Westerns. This documentary, written by director Plante along with Sam Green and Tim Kirk, highlights the influence of Earp’s legacy...

    And with Him Came the West
  • 2021
    Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening

    Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening (2021)

    Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening

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    Sam Green's intimate portrait of Annea Lockwood shares with us a glimpse into the enthralling world of sound that she has been exploring and creating for many years. It is a touching and personal story of imagination and love....

    Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
  • 1997
    The Rainbow Man/John 3:16

    The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997)

    The Rainbow Man/John 3:16

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    Millions of Americans have seen Rollen Frederick Stewart, a.k.a. "Rainbow Man", who achieved notoriety during the late 70's by appearing in the crowd at thousands of televised sporting events wearing his trademark rainbow-colored afro wig. Later—afte...

    The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
  • 2018
    Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery

    Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (2018)

    Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery

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    A short documentary portrait of the greatest pet cemetery in the world....

    Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
  • 2012
    The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

    The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012)

    The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

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    The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller traces the career of twentieth-century futurist, architect, engineer, inventor, and author R. Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983). An early proponent of environmental stewardship, Fuller spoke persuasively about cont...

    The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
  • 2018
    A Thousand Thoughts

    A Thousand Thoughts (2018)

    A Thousand Thoughts

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    Filmmaker Sam Green, in collaboration with writer and editor Joe Bini, takes the stage with the legendary classical-music group Kronos Quartet to create a "live documentary" that chronologically unfolds the quartet's groundbreaking, continent-spannin...

    A Thousand Thoughts
  • 2000
    Pie Fight '69

    Pie Fight '69 (2000)

    Pie Fight '69

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    Opening night of the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival on the steps of City Hall. A who's who of SF high society is suddenly ambushed by a cadre of independent filmmakers armed with pies....

    Pie Fight '69
  • 2008
    Clear Glasses

    Clear Glasses (2008)

    Clear Glasses

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    Short doc surrounding Paul Rudd's clear glasses that came to Sam's door from a time when the world was different....

    Clear Glasses
  • 2006
    Lot 63, Grave C

    Lot 63, Grave C (2006)

    Lot 63, Grave C

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    The mystery behind the man who died at Altamont....

    Lot 63, Grave C
  • 2014
    The Measure of All Things

    The Measure of All Things (2014)

    The Measure of All Things

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    Documentarian Sam Green interprets our collective fascination with the Guinness Book of World Records as a profound need to try and make some sense of who we are by calibrating human experience and marveling at its outer contours. Green himself trave...

    The Measure of All Things
  • 2010
    Utopia in Four Movements

    Utopia in Four Movements (2010)

    Utopia in Four Movements

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    Throughout human history, people have had giddy dreams and fantastic notions about what the future would bring. Today the future has become more of a threat than a promise-a knot of intractable problems looming menacingly on the horizon. With a power...

    Utopia in Four Movements
  • 2008
    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans (2008)

    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

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    "Faubourg Treme documents the enduring legacy of one of the United States' oldest African American communities, an area just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans."...

    Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
  • 2019
    Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig

    Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig (2019)

    Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig

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    “Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig” is a 30 minute live cinema portrait that debuted at the Whitney Biennial in August 2019. The film is about gay activist Jim Fouratt who played central roll in the Stonewall uprising....

    Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
  • 2009
    Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall

    Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall (2009)

    Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall

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    A tour of the world's largest shopping mall, located near Guangzhou, China....

    Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall