Plots(1)
At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unknown voices of everyday folk. The recordings they made revealed the country's diversity - artistically, ethnically, geographically and economically. Through the stories of music pioneers, their families and eyewitnesses to the era, we travel back in time to the "Big Bang" of modern popular music - to the first time America heard itself, its own music, pure and unadulterated. This documentary trilogy produced by T Bone Burnett, Jack White and Robert Redford (who also narrates) explores a democratic revolution that would reverberate around the world. (Denver International Film Festival)
(more)Cast
Robert Redford (narrator)
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Out of Africa (1985)
Taj Mahal
USA
Best movies:
The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains (1987) (TV movie)
Songcatcher (2000)
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)
Jack White
USA
Best movies:
Cold Mountain (2003)
Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)