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THE 9 LIVES OF BARBARA DANE

Program Rights Date Range
-
NOLA Code:
NLBD 0000 H1
Number of Episodes/Length:
1 / 60
Collections:
Rights End:
3/13/2029
Producer
Jed Riffe Films
Producer
Protesta Productions
TV-PG
CC
Interconnection
Stereo
Year Produced:
2026
Version:
Base

Pete Seeger mentored her; Bob Dylan called her a hero; Louis Armstrong discovered her; and Jane Fonda called her an inspiration. Singer, activist, mother, feminist, record producer, maverick, and general troublemaker, Barbara Dane turns setbacks into opportunities, paving her own way with her art, participating in and influencing international social justice and musical movements across nine decades.

Program Rights

Broadcast Rights:
Unlimited
Rights Dates:
3/14/2026 - 3/13/2029
School Rights:
1 year
V.O.D. Rights:
No
V.O.D Other:
-
Linear Live Streaming:
Yes
Non-Commercial Cable Rights:
Yes
3:23-3:26 Video of anti-war demonstrators and armed police in confrontation, pushing back and forth at a gate
3:38-3:40 Video opf armed Police at the site of a demonstration
4:51-5:05 images of white people pulling black people off buses and chasing them with bats.
6:30 Image of Rolf Cahn with pipe in his mouth
7:18 petition headline reads “Halt Discrimination Against Negroes In Restaurants”
8:19-8:26 Image of a group of people, 2 are holding cigarettes
10:00 Image of Rolf Cahn with pipe in his mouth
10:45 Image of Rolf Cahn with pipe in his mouth
20:00 Footage of armed police at the site of a school desegregation
20:23 Image of Louis Armstrong holding a smoking cigarette or joint
21:16 Image of Earl “Fatha” Hines holding a cigar
21:20 Image of man with a pipe in his mouth
21:23 Image of Barbara Dane with a cigarette in hand
21:35 Gary Giddins: And I'm sure she must have read some of the more discouraging reviews, but if you got Count Basie and Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines in your corner, do you really give a 01:21:44:12 shit about what some guy in Downbeat has to say? (Muted)
22:00 Newspaper headline reads “Barbara Feels Sincerity. Brings Negro Acceptance”
23:53 Image of a man with cigarette in hand
26:19 Image of Barbara Dane playing guitar - man with pipe in mouth in the background
29:29-29:34 Barbara Dane asks The Chambers Brothers before a performance, “What do you want me to say about you? Anything Special?” They reply, “You know what to say…I met them when they were little nappy-headed boys.” Barbara repeats “little nappy-headed boys”
30:48 - 31:02 Barbara Dane says "to hell with all that " in response to criticism around putting her picture on an album cover with black men
32:28 Video of white people violently pulling black people from a table or lunch counter
33:18 Pull quote from newspaper article reads “And in the crowd, Barbara Dane, a blind folk singer of national reputation, began to sing. Others, white and Negro, joined in…”
33:33 woman holding a Confederate flag and a sign that reads " Nigger don't you wish you were white"
33:40 Video of black woman being dragged by her arms by police through the street
34:48 woman holding sign that reads " Nigger don't you wish you were white." Two Confederate flags are also in the image.
34:49 Video of woman running into the street and slapping a man with a camera
37:15 Image of Bob Dylan smoking a cigarette
38:48-39:05 video of fighter jets dropping bombs and missiles over Vietnam and the resulting explosions.
38:48 Song lyric sung by Barbara Dane, “you put a gun in my hand”
39:05 Image of distressed, possibly wounded Vietnamese people
39:12-39:19 Video of soldiers engaged in battle in Vietnam, firing weapons, planes dropping bombs
43:32 Barbara Dane singing song with lyric “Hell no, we won’t go”
Jane Fonda @ 01:47:00:12 “We decided to do a show called the FTA show. Free the Army. Really was 01:47:06:20 Fuck the Army. But we called it Free the Army or Fun, Travel and Adventure. So, this was a show that would have skits taken from the newspapers, printing the news of the base and funny articles.” (muted)
48:08-48:15 Video of anti-war demonstrators and armed police in confrontation, pushing back and forth at a gate
50:33-55:07 During music performance, artwork behind Barbara contains many bare-chested mermaids

Program Contacts

Contact Type
Viewer

Jed Riffe
United States

Jonathan Logan Family Foundation
Orchard House Foundation & Carson Miller
Carolyn Mugar
D.D. Wigley
T.M. Scruggs
Nancy Blachman
Berkeley Film Foundation
The Nancy and Richard Robbins Family Foundation
Peter Esmonde
Alafi Family Foundation
Fleishhacker Foundation
Mike Kappus
David & Janet Peeples
Yip Harburg Foundation
Bob Stern
Buenas Obras/Jewish Comm. Fund
Robert Sillins Family Foundation
Holly Near