Sam Green
Directing
1966-01-01 · East Lansing, Michigan, USA
Sam Green (born in 1966; East Lansing) is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” including 32 Sounds (2022) with electronic musician JD Samson, A Thousand Thoughts (2018) in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, The Measure of All Things (2014), and The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller (2012), which premiered at the Museum of Modern Art as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival. All four works are performed live, with Green narrating and musicians performing the soundtrack. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS.
Filmography
TheatersThe Oldest Person in the World
2026 · Movie
32 Sounds
2023 · Movie
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
2021 · Movie
7 Sounds
2020 · Movie
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
2019 · Movie
And with Him Came the West
2019 · Movie
A Thousand Thoughts
2018 · Movie
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
2018 · Movie
This is What the Future Looked Like
2017 · Movie
The Measure of All Things
2014 · Movie
Love Letter to the Fog
2013 · Movie
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
2013 · Movie
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
2012 · Movie
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
2011 · Movie
The Universal Language
2011 · Movie
Utopia in Four Movements
2010 · Movie
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
2009 · Movie
Clear Glasses
2008 · Movie
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008 · Movie
Lot 63, Grave C
2006 · Movie
N Judah 5:30
2004 · Movie
The Weather Underground
2002 · Movie
Pie Fight '69
2000 · Movie
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999 · Movie
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997 · Movie
The Ultimate Guide
1996 · Series
Daisy
Movie