# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sam-green
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:46:18.768Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sam-green"
name: "Sam Green"
slug: "sam-green"
description: "Sam Green is an American documentary filmmaker. His most recent projects are “live documentaries” in which he narrates a film in-person while musicians perform a live soundtrack. His 2018 project A Thousand Thoughts features a live score by the Kronos Quartet, and his 2012 project The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller featured a live score by the band Yo La Tengo. Green's 2004 film The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, included in the Whitney Biennial, and broadcast nationally on PBS."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sam_Green_2016.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1966"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.94
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.816344
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0338316/"
    handle:    "nm0338316"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.samgreen.to"
sources:
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%85_%D8%BA%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "سام غرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Green"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q534662"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3460779"
    title: "Sam Green"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump