Sam Green

Known for DirectingBorn 1966-01-01 (age 60)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.Read more

Movies & web series

N Judah 5:30

The Measure of All Things

Lot 63, Grave C

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains

The Rainbow Man/John 3:16

The Weather Underground

The Oldest Person in the World

Pie Fight '69

32 Sounds

Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening

And with Him Came the West

The Universal Language

Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery

7 Sounds

Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig

A Thousand Thoughts

This is What the Future Looked Like

Love Letter to the Fog

A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco

The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller

(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas

Utopia in Four Movements

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

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Clear Glasses

The Ultimate Guide

Daisy