The Search for Robert Johnson

The Search for Robert Johnson
Directed by	Chris Hunt
Produced by	Chris Hunt
Starring	Johnny Shines David Honeyboy Edwards
Narrated by	John P. Hammond
Cinematography	Paul Bond, Ken Morse
Edited by	Stuart Davidson
Music by	Robert Johnson
Production company	Iambic Productions
Distributed by	Channel 4
Release date	1992 (1992)
Running time	53 minutes (TV). 72 minutes (VHS,[1] DVD[2][3])
Country	UK

The Search for Robert Johnson is a 1992 British television documentary film about the American Delta blues musician Robert Johnson, hosted by John Hammond, and produced and directed by Chris Hunt. In the film, Hammond journeys through the American Deep South to pursue topics such as Johnson's birth date, place and parents, his early musical development, performances and travels, romances, his mythic "pact with the devil," his death in the late 1930s, the discovery of possible offspring, and the uncertainty over where Johnson is buried. Throughout, Johnson's music is both foreground and background, from recordings of Johnson and as performed on camera by Hammond, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, and Johnny Shines.

Produced by Iambic Productions, the documentary first aired on Channel 4.^[4]