Sam Green

32 Sounds (2023)

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

Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening (2021)

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. ...

7 Sounds (2020)

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

Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig (2019)

"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. ...

And with Him Came the West (2019)

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 on ci ...

A Thousand Thoughts (2018)

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-spanning, mul ...

Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery (2018)

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

This is What the Future Looked Like (2017)

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. ...

The Measure of All Things (2014)

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 travels to ...

Love Letter to the Fog (2013)

A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco (2013)

A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco showcases a visually compelling experience of fog and the rich feelings it evokes. ...

The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012)

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 contempo ...

(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas (2011)

I've been to Las Vegas many times and have always experienced a familiar roller coaster of reactions to the city, from being fascinated and seeing it as a profound expression of grand historical forces and liberatory impulses to just seeing it as a totally ...

The Universal Language (2011)

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 doctor who ...

Utopia in Four Movements (2010)

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 powerful se ...

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

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

Clear Glasses (2008)

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

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

The true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series "Tremé", from slave revolts and underground free black antebellum resistance through post-Katrina rebuilding, set to a fabulous soundtrack of New Orleans music ...

Lot 63, Grave C (2006)

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

N Judah 5:30 (2004)

A melancholy train ride filled with small, rich moments. ...

The Weather Underground (2002)

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

Pie Fight '69 (2000)

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. ...

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains (1999)

A documentary look at the 'making of' and cult success of the troubled Lou Adler directed film "Ladies And Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains" starring Diane Lane. ...

The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 (1997)

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—after he ...

32 Sounds (2023)

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