Pete Seeger: movies and TV shows
Pete Seeger has 81 credits in the archive: 70 films and 11 TV series, from 1945 to 2025. Highest rated: Reading Rainbow (8.3/10).
Career timeline
1945 – 2025 · busiest year: 1962 (4 credits)
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Full filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Type | Rating | Age then |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Newport and the Great Folk Dream | Self (archive footage) | Film | 9.0 | 106 |
| 2023 | Down By The Riverside | Film | — | 104 | |
| 2022 | 2022 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony | Self (archive footage) | Film | 8.2 | 103 |
| 2019 | ReMastered: The Lion's Share | Himself (archive footage) | Film | 6.6 | 100 |
| 2019 | Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970 | Self | Film | — | 100 |
| 2015 | Pete and Toshi Get a Camera | Film | — | 96 | |
| 2014 | Freedom Summer | Self | Film | 7.2 | 95 |
| 2014 | The Winding Stream | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.5 | 95 |
| 2013 | Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation | Self | Film | 7.1 | 94 |
| 2013 | Big Bill Broonzy: The Man who Brought the Blues to Britain | Self | Film | — | 94 |
| 2012 | Palme | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.6 | 93 |
| 2011 | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune | Self | Film | 6.6 | 92 |
| 2011 | Give Me the Banjo | Self | Film | 7.2 | 92 |
| 2010 | Gasland | Self (archive footage) | Film | 7.1 | 91 |
| 2009 | We Are One: The Obama Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial | Self | Film | 4.6 | 90 |
| 2008 | Down the Tracks: The Music That Influenced Bob Dylan | Film | 8.5 | 89 | |
| 2007 | Pete Seeger: The Power of Song | Self | Film | 7.0 | 88 |
| 2007 | The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan: Live at the Newport Folk Festival | Self | Film | 8.1 | 88 |
| 2007 | Polis Is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place | Film | — | 88 | |
| 2007 | Ella Jenkins Live at the Smithsonian | Self | Film | — | 88 |
| 2006 | Woody Guthrie: Ain't Got No Home | Self | Film | — | 87 |
| 2005 | No Direction Home: Bob Dylan | Self | Film | 7.8 | 86 |
| 2004 | Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal | Himself | Film | 7.0 | 85 |
| 2003 | Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry: Red River Blues 1948-1974 | Self | Film | 3.8 | 84 |
| 2002 | Smothered: The Censorship Struggles of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour | Self | Film | 4.5 | 83 |
| 2002 | Strange Fruit | Self | Film | 9.0 | 83 |
| 2001 | A Sigh and a Wish: Helen Creighton's Maritimes | Himself | Film | — | 82 |
| 2000 | The Internationale | Self | Film | 8.0 | 81 |
| 2000 | The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack | Self | Film | 7.4 | 81 |
| 1999 | Paul Robeson: Here I Stand | Self | Film | 8.0 | 80 |
| 1997 | An Act of Conscience | Self | Film | 7.0 | 78 |
| 1996 | Mountain Born: The Jean Ritchie Story | Film | — | 77 | |
| 1991 | Tribute to Harry Chapin | Film | 7.0 | 72 | |
| 1990 | Sesame Street: Sing Yourself Silly! | Self (archive footage) | Film | 6.0 | 71 |
| 1990 | I’m a Negro, I’m an American – Paul Robeson | Film | 7.0 | 71 | |
| 1989 | Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center | Self | Film | — | 70 |
| 1989 | Pete Seeger at Home | Himself | Film | — | 70 |
| 1988 | Sesame Street: Put Down the Duckie | Self | Film | 6.8 | 69 |
| 1988 | BBC Arena: Woody Guthrie | Self | Film | — | 69 |
| 1988 | Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning | Film | — | 69 | |
| 1987 | The Arlo Guthrie Show | Self | Film | — | 68 |
| 1984 | Woody Guthrie: Hard Travelin' | Self | Film | 6.5 | 65 |
| 1984 | Chords of Fame | Himself | Film | 10.0 | 65 |
| 1983 | Reading Rainbow | Self - Narrator (voice) | TV | 8.3 | 64 |
| 1983 | Seeing Red: Stories of American Communists | Self - Folksinger | Film | 6.4 | 64 |
| 1982 | The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time | Self | Film | 7.8 | 63 |
| 1980 | Canto Libre - den fria sången | Self | Film | — | 61 |
| 1978 | The Kennedy Center Honors | Self | TV | 7.4 | 59 |
| 1978 | Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie: Together in Concert | Film | — | 59 | |
| 1977 | All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music | Self (archive footage) | TV | 6.5 | 58 |
| 1977 | Phil Ochs Memorial Celebration | Self | Film | — | 58 |
| 1972 | Pete Seeger: A Song and A Stone | Self | Film | — | 53 |
| 1971 | The Foolish Frog | Narrator (voice) | Film | 8.0 | 52 |
| 1971 | The Foolish Frog | Film | 8.0 | 52 | |
| 1970 | The Smothers Brothers Summer Show | TV | 8.0 | 51 | |
| 1970 | Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon | Himself | Film | 5.5 | 51 |
| 1969 | The Johnny Cash Show | Self | TV | 6.5 | 50 |
| 1969 | Alice's Restaurant | Himself | Film | 6.2 | 50 |
| 1968 | The Dick Cavett Show | Self - Guest | TV | 6.8 | 49 |
| 1967 | Festival | Self | Film | 6.0 | 48 |
| 1966 | Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison | Film | — | 47 | |
| 1965 | Rainbow Quest | Self - Host | TV | — | 46 |
| 1965 | The Creative Person: The Folksinger | Self | Film | — | 46 |
| 1964 | Singing Fishermen of Ghana | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1964 | Singing Fishermen of Ghana | Film | — | 45 | |
| 1963 | Tonight in Person | Self | TV | 7.0 | 44 |
| 1962 | The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson | Self | TV | 7.5 | 43 |
| 1962 | The Streets of Greenwood | Film | 8.0 | 43 | |
| 1962 | Wasn't That a Time | Self | Film | — | 43 |
| 1962 | Lines: Horizontal | Film | 6.4 | 43 | |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | TV | 5.8 | 42 |
| 1961 | Cattle Ranch | Film | 10.0 | 42 | |
| 1960 | Indian Summer | Film | 7.0 | 41 | |
| 1959 | The David Susskind Show | Self | TV | 7.0 | 40 |
| 1959 | The End of the Line | Film | 10.0 | 40 | |
| 1947 | To Hear Your Banjo Play | Self | Film | 4.5 | 28 |
| 1946 | The Fight for Maritime Unity | Film | — | 27 | |
| 1945 | Pick a Bale of Cotton | Film | — | 26 | |
| I Refuse to Kill: He Went to War with War | Self | Film | — | — | |
| THE MANY COLORED PAPER | Himself | Film | — | — | |
| THE MANY COLORED PAPER | Film | — | — |