
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1966 (age 60)
Birthplace
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.
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Writer
2026
Director, Editor
2023
as Self - Narrator (voice), Director, Editor
2021
2020
Director
2019
Director
2019
2018
Producer, Writer, Director
2018
Writer, Director
2017
2014
Director
2013
Director
2013
2012
2011
2011
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer
2010
Director, Editor, Producer
2009
Producer, Director
2008
Director
2008
2006
Director, Editor
2004
Director
2002
Director, Editor, Producer
2000
Director
1999