Sam Green

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.
Crew

Annea Lockwood: A Film About Listening
Director

The Weather Underground
Director, Editor, Producer

The Rainbow Man/John 3:16
Director, Writer, Editor, Producer

Utopia in Four Movements
Director, Editor, Producer

The Universal Language
Director, Producer, Editor, Writer

32 Sounds
Director, Editor
Love Letter to the Fog
Director

7 Sounds
Director

(Commissioned) Portrait of Las Vegas
Director

This is What the Future Looked Like
Director

The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller
Director

Don’t Call Me Gay Zelig
Director

Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery
Writer, Director

A Thousand Thoughts
Producer, Writer, Director
Daisy
Writer

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans
Editor

And with Him Came the West
Writer

Utopia, Part 3: The World's Largest Shopping Mall
Producer, Director

Lot 63, Grave C
Director, Editor

Clear Glasses
Director

N Judah 5:30
Director

A Cinematic Study of Fog in San Francisco
Director

Pie Fight '69
Director

The Measure of All Things
Director

The Making of Ladies and Gentlemen, Fabulous Stains
Director

The Oldest Person in the World
Director, Editor