Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

The documentary is about Greenwich Village in New York. The years run from the late fifties into the early seventies. In those years the neighbourhood was full of small clubs. Most of the people on stage wrote their own songs. A guitar and a voice, and nothing else. What they sang about was not ordinary either. They stood against segregation, the draft and censorship. The Cold War was the ground under those songs. The documentary talks to people who lived through it. There is archive footage and there are newly filmed performances. Don McLean and Richie Havens are among those speaking. Susan Sarandon narrates. The film shows how a music scene built a community. Susan Sarandon and Don McLean appear in the ninety two minute documentary, an American production Laura Archibald finished in 2013.