Sam Green
Directing · Born Jan 1, 1966 · 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.
Known for
Directed
The Oldest Person in the World
2026
32 Sounds
20236.2
Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
20216.0
7 Sounds
2020
Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
2019
A Thousand Thoughts
2018
Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
20185.0
This is What the Future Looked Like
2017
The Measure of All Things
20148.0
A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
2013
The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
2012
(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
2011
The Universal Language
20116.0
Utopia in Four Movements
2010
Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
20099.0
Clear Glasses
2008
Lot 63, Grave C
20068.0
N Judah 5:30
200410.0
The Weather Underground
20026.6
Pie Fight '69
20006.2
The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
19997.5
The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
19977.0