Pete Seeger
Peter Seeger (May 3, 1919 – January 27, 2014) was an American folk singer and social activist. A fixture on nationwide radio in the 1940s, Seeger also had a string of hit records during the early 1950s as a member of the Weavers, notably their recording of Lead Belly's "Goodnight, Irene", which topped the charts for 13 weeks in 1950. Members of the Weavers were blacklisted during the McCarthy Era. In the 1960s, Seeger re-emerged on the public scene as a prominent singer of protest music in support of international disarmament, civil rights, counterculture, workers' rights, and environmental causes.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.4124 |
| Birthday | 1919-05-03 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Peter Seeger, |
1969
Alice's Restaurant
6.279/77
After getting kicked out of college, Arlo decides to visit his friend Alice for Thanksgiving dinner. After dinner is over, Arlo volunteers to take the...
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Alice's Restaurant
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
7/3
Interviews, archival footage and home movies are used to illustrate a social history of folk artist and activist Pete Seeger.
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Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
1971
The Foolish Frog
8/2
A farmer wanted words to go with the tune he was playing when he saw a frog sitting on the bank of the stream. The frog did something silly which gave...
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The Foolish Frog
2014
Freedom Summer
7.2/6
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freed...
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Freedom Summer
2011
Give Me the Banjo
7.2/6
The Banjo Project is a cross-media cultural odyssey: a major television documentary, a live stage/multi-media performance, and a website that chronicl...
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Give Me the Banjo
1989
Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
0/0
Izzy Young was the guru of American folk music. In this documentary covering his legendary Folklore Center in New York Izzy meets with friends and col...
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Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
2001
A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
0/0
A Sigh and a Wish tells the story of pioneer folklorist Helen Creighton and of the enduring appeal of her remarkable collections of song and story. Cr...
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A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes
2000
The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
7.4/5
With the help of her mother, family, friends, and fellow musicians, Aiyana Elliott reaches for her father, legendary cowboy troubadour, Ramblin' Jack...
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The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack
1997
An Act of Conscience
7/1
When a young couple buys a contested home at auction from the U.S. government for $5,400, they become involved in a political and moral battle much la...
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An Act of Conscience
1991
Tribute to Harry Chapin
7/1
Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chapin's posthumous receipt of the Congressional Medal...
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Tribute to Harry Chapin
1990
I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
7/1
Biographical notes on the American singer, actor and civil rights activist Paul Robeson (1898-1976). At the height of his fame and skill, Robeson’s ca...
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I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson
2003
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
3.8/2
For some 30 years, they embodied "country blues" for folk music audiences around the globe. Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were once ubiquitous, and a...
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Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974
2023
Down By The Riverside
0/0
“If there’s hope for the human race, there’s hope for the Hudson.” —Pete Seeger In the summer of 1969, legendary folk singer Pete Seeger launched the...
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Down By The Riverside
2015
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
0/0
55 years ago Pete Seeger didn't name names at the McCarthy hearings and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Out on appeal, blacklisted, watched by th...
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Pete and Toshi Get a Camera
1947
To Hear Your Banjo Play
4.5/2
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.
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To Hear Your Banjo Play
2004
Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
7/1
In September of 2004 at the Toronto Film Festival, the Weavers sang together for possibly the last time.
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Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal
2005
No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
7.741/145
A chronicle of Bob Dylan's strange evolution between 1961 and 1966 from folk singer to protest singer to "voice of a generation" to rock star.
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2008
Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
8.5/2
This fascinating program tells the story of the music and artists that have influenced Bob Dylan throughout his career. Although his reputation as a s...
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Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan
2002
Strange Fruit
9/1
In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "...
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Strange Fruit
1996
Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
0/0
Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her family...
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Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story
2013
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
7/9
Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the '60s and early '70s. The film highlights some of the finest singer/songwriters of the d...
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Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
2022
2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
8.2/11
The 37th Annual Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony take place on Saturday, November 5, 2022 at Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California....
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2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
2007
Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
0/0
Documentary about Charles Olson, exploring his life and the significance of Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
2010
Gasland
7.1/153
It is happening all across America-rural landowners wake up one day to find a lucrative offer from an energy company wanting to lease their property....
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Gasland
I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
0/0
At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector t...
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I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War
1989
Pete Seeger at Home
0/0
In this documentary, Pete Seeger is caught in a relaxed mood in and outside his cottage outside New York in an excellent video produced by Jim Downing
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Pete Seeger at Home
1988
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
0/0
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working p...
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Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
1987
The Arlo Guthrie Show
0/0
A concert featuring singer-songwriter Arlo Guthrie. Performing from Austin, Texas, the folk-singer is joined by guest artists.
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The Arlo Guthrie Show
1967
Festival
5.958/12
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul...
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Festival
1970
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
5.429/14
The story of three wildly neurotic characters: a facially disfigured girl, a homosexual paraplegic, and an introvert epileptic who, after leaving the...
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Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
2014
The Winding Stream
6.5/11
The story of the American music dynasty, the Carters and Cashes, and their decades-long influence on popular music.
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The Winding Stream
2006
Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
0/0
Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of the folk singer/songwriter has been recorded by ev...
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Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home
2002
Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
4.5/2
The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.
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Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
1984
Chords of Fame
10/1
Documentary about the life of folk singer Phil Ochs.
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Chords of Fame
1962
The Streets of Greenwood
8/1
THE STREETS OF GREENWOOD (1962), looks at voter registration efforts by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)and a concert in a cotton...
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The Streets of Greenwood
2019
ReMastered: The Lion's Share
6.6/22
After discovering the family of Solomon Linda, the writer of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," a reporter tries to help them fight for fair compensation.
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ReMastered: The Lion's Share
1988
Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
7/3
The stars come out on Sesame Street in this fun-filled video featuring the show's most memorable moments. Sing-along in this star-studded celebration!
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Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie
2019
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
0/0
In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians gathered at Los Angeles, CA’s Hollywood Bowl to pay...
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Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
1980
Canto Libre - den fria sången
0/0
A concert program about the current development of the free Latin American music presented by a wide range of artists, performers and groups from arou...
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Canto Libre - den fria sången
1984
Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
6.5/2
A warmhearted memorial to the folk singer whose songs galvanized organizers and guitar-pickers across the United States. Part biography, part travelog...
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Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin'
2000
The Internationale
8/1
THE INTERNATIONALE draws on people's stories of an emotionally charged radical song (the long-time anthem of socialism and communism) to celebrate the...
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The Internationale
1977
Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
0/0
A tribute concert honoring the life of legendary folksinger Phil Ochs recorded at the Madison Square Garden's Felt Forum in 1976.
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Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration
1982
The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
7.8/5
Documentary about the blacklisted folk group The Weavers, and the events leading up to their triumphant return to Carnegie Hall.
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The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1983
Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
6.429/7
A unique documentary that looks at the political activities of the American Communist Party in the early to mid-twentieth century.
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Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists
1962
Wasn't That a Time
0/0
A look into those convicted by the House Un-American Activities Committee
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Wasn't That a Time
2013
Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
0/0
Big Bill Broonzy would inspire a generation of musicians, yet he was not the man they believed him to be. This first, very intimate, biography of the...
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Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain
1999
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
8/1
Paul Robeson: Here I Stand presents the life and achievements of an extraordinary man. Athlete, singer, and scholar, Robeson was also a charismatic ch...
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Paul Robeson: Here I Stand
2009
We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
4.6/5
A public celebration of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America at the Lincoln Memorial and the Nationa...
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We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial
1978
Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
0/0
Full concert recorded live at Wolf Trap, VA for PBS broadcast. Arlo and Pete are joined onstage by the band Shanandoah on many of their well-loved Fol...
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Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert
1990
Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
6/4
Big Bird and his pals are making musical mayhem as they sing the goofiest, nuttiest, silliest songs ever. Join in with Sesame Street favorites Oscar,...
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Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly!
1965
The Creative Person: The Folksinger
0/0
Three of the top folksinger-composers - Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, and Buffy Sainte-Marie - are featured here. These are the new "city" folksingers whose...
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The Creative Person: The Folksinger
2011
Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
6.6/7
From civil rights to the anti-war movement to the struggles of workers, folksinger Phil Ochs wrote topical songs that engaged his audiences in the iss...
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Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune
1972
Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
0/0
This classic documentary made by director Robert Elfstrom shows Pete Seeger as a fighter for human rights through songs such as I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hi...
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Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone
1988
BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
0/0
Documentary on the life of Woody Guthrie, the travelling songwriter and singer who paved the way for the likes of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.
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BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie
2012
Palme
7.6/32
Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of Sweden...
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Palme
2007
The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
8.1/13
An unvarnished chronicle of Bob Dylan's metamorphosis from folk to rock musician via appearances at the Newport Folk Festival between 1963 and 1965.
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The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival
2025
Newport and the Great Folk Dream
0/0
Powerful music leaps from the air and can change the actual world. At the Newport Folk Festivals in the early 1960s, the molecules were electric with...
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Newport and the Great Folk Dream
2007
Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
0/0
A special concert celebrating the music of children's music entertainer Ella Jenkins, based on the Grammy award-winning album.
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Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian
THE MANY COLORED PAPER
0/0
The Family of musician Peter Seeger and filmmaker Toshi Seeger celebrate the season of Christmas by making home made wrapping paper. Their daughter Mi...
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