
Sam Green
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1966, East Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Movies
- 25
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 Movies

The Weather Underground
2002

32 Sounds
2023

Pie Fight '69
2000

The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
1997

And with Him Came the West
2019

Lot 63, Grave C
2006

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
1999

Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
2021

The Universal Language
2011

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
2009
Filmography
| 2023 | 32 Sounds | Self - Narrator (voice) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
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