Director
Sam Green
60 years · East Lansing, Michigan, USA · 24 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 24
The Oldest Person in the World
2026 · Director, Editor
32 Sounds
2023 · Self - Narrator (voice), Director
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
2021 · Director
7 Sounds
2020 · Director
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
2019 · Director
And with Him Came the West
2019 · Writer
On Tubi TV
A Thousand Thoughts
2018 · Producer, Writer
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
2018 · Writer, Director
This is What the Future Looked Like
2017 · Director
The Measure of All Things
2014 · Director
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
2013 · Director
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
2012 · Director
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
2011 · Director
The Universal Language
2011 · Director, Producer
Utopia in Four Movements
2010 · Director, Editor
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
2009 · Producer, Director
Clear Glasses
2008 · Director
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
2008 · Editor
Lot 63, Grave C
2006 · Director, Editor
N Judah 5:30
2004 · Director
The Weather Underground
2002 · Director, Editor
Pie Fight '69
2000 · Director
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999 · Director
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997 · Director, Writer