Featured Films
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From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels1988 | 52 mins
From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels1988 | 52 minsBeginning in April 1988, a number of oral histories and Irish traditional music and dance performances were videotaped for the documentary From Shore To Shore: Irish Traditional Music In New York... -
The High Lonesome Sound1963 | 30 minsThe High Lonesome Sound1963 | 30 minsJohn Cohn's remarkable documentary explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Presents songs by revivalist church... -
Catching the Music1987 | 54 minsCatching the Music1987 | 54 minsAn hour-long WETA-TV documentary on musician Stephen Wade. Catching the Music describes the passing of the banjo from one player to the next. The film includes footage of Kirk McGee, Hobart Smith,... -
Narikuravar2008 | 14 minsNarikuravar2008 | 14 minsolkstreams is hoping to help other countries archive and streams films about their own traditional cultures and this is our first experiment in International cooperation.This is a 15-minute... -
The Cameraman Has Visited Our Town1989 | 19 minsThe Cameraman Has Visited Our Town1989 | 19 minsAn introduction to H. Lee Waters and his Movies of Local People 1936 to 1942. A film by Tom Whiteside.
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