Jim Brown
Directing • 1950-06-07 • New York City, New York, USA
Jim Brown is a four-time Emmy Award winning American director/producer known primarily for his work in musical documentaries. He heads Jim Brown Productions, LLC and Ginger Group Productions, Inc. He specializes in social, cultural and musical documentaries with an emphasis on how the power of music can create change. He has one of the largest archives of American folk and roots music from the last 4 decades of his life's work. Brown is a recently retired professor at New York University's Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at Tisch School of the Arts. He taught at New York University for 35+years. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America and a retired member of the International Cinematographers Guild. Brown is also an avid hiker, skier and loves gardening, filmmaking and photography.
Known For
8.2Peter, Paul & Mary: Carry It On
2004
7.8The Weavers: Wasn't That a Time
1982
6.4Free to Rock
2017
8.5Billy Joel: A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia
2014
7.0American Patchwork: Songs and Stories of America
1990
7.0Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
From Nerdspin
Filmography
- 2022
- 2019★ 2.7
- 2019
- 2017★ 6.4
- 2016
- 2014★ 8.5
- 2007★ 7.0
- 2004★ 8.2
- 2004★ 7.0
- 2003
- 1994
- 1989★ 7.0
- 1989
- 1988★ 7.0
- 1984★ 6.5
- 1982★ 7.8

















