Folk Movies

Folk music icon Buffy Sainte-Marie became internationally renowned with her protest song "Universal Soldier." In this short documentary, she candidly...

A conceptual short film starring Natalie Merchant as various archetypal female characters, plus a series of music videos from Merchant’s first...

A coven of witches gather in Vermont in a feminist collective’s transporting short that shakes off patriarchal scrutiny during the...

Burning Heart captures the emotion and energy of a yearly tradition in the small English town of Ottery Saint Mary where, on the 5th of November for...

When the immigrants came to America, their cultures entered the "great melting pot." In Michigan's Upper Peninsula Finnish immigrants mixed their...

The highlights of the 20th Anniversary Concert celebrating the partnership between Wales' best -known political folk singer and the first...

Episode one of a series which follows an individual named Prawn as they try to become a musician before their first gig in 5 weeks time. Prawn...

Caught between a joyous folk festival and the rise of nationalist flag-raising, this film explores how Englishness became a battleground, and meets...

Lick the Sun is a short film about three bored witches who get a mysterious invitation.

Nefeedd Yr Adar is the first taste from Melin Melyn's new EP, 'Happy Gathering’, and is inspired by an old legend about Nefydd Hardd, a jealous...

Young Masters is an original series commissioned by NOWNESS China focusing on traditional Chinese cultures, and how they continue to be defined by a...

Donnie Munro's lasts concert as lead singer of Runrig. The band bid a tearful farewell to lead singer Donnie Munro in this live performance at...

Recorded live, at Sao Jorge theatre, Lisboa, 27th March 2007.

A short film documenting the dying tradition of Holmie Day, where islanders on Papa Westray, in Orkney, sail across to the nearby uninhabited island...

1965 feature film, shot in 1964, about Balboa folk singer Tim Morgon, shot on location at the Prison of Socrates coffee-house. To watch this movie is...

The very first Empyrium concert captured in sound and vision June 11th, 2011, was a landmark date in Empyrium's history. After more than 15 years,...

the live performance have become the most exciting part of the music business for me... And it is not only the playing

Snippets from found postcards and photographs from the 1920s to the 1980s.

Sheep flocks in the Lake District are ‘hefted’ to the fell - over time they developed an instinct to remain on a patch of land. Through...