Sam Green

Biography

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.

Movies with Sam Green

• 32 Sounds 2023 · ★ 6.2

Movies directed by Sam Green

• The Weather Underground 2002 · ★ 6.6
• 32 Sounds 2023 · ★ 6.2
• Pie Fight '69 2000 · ★ 6.2
• The Rainbow Man/John 3:16 1997 · ★ 7.0
• Lot 63, Grave C 2006 · ★ 8.0
• The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains 1999 · ★ 7.5
• Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening 2021 · ★ 6.0
• The Universal Language 2011 · ★ 6.0
• Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall 2009 · ★ 9.0
• N Judah 5:30 2004 · ★ 10.0
• Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery 2018 · ★ 5.0
• The Measure of All Things 2014 · ★ 8.0
• Utopia in Four Movements 2010
• Love Letter to the Fog 2013
• 7 Sounds 2020
• (Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas 2011
• This is What the Future Looked Like 2017
• The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller 2012
• Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig 2019
• Clear Glasses 2008
• A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco 2013
• A Thousand Thoughts 2018
• The Oldest Person in the World 2026