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And This Is Free
1965 | 1h 29mins
And This Is Free
1965 | 1h 29mins
Trailer for And This Is Free a personal vision of life around Chicago's Maxwell Street open air market shot by award winning photographer Mike Shea capturing the gritty urban…
Ave Maria
1986 | 27mins
Ave Maria
1986 | 27mins
Documents one of the most important traditions of Boston's Italian-Americans: the annual celebration of the Feast of the Madonna del Soccorso, popularly known as the Fisherman's…
Bronx Irish at the Ramparts
1984 | 28mins
Bronx Irish at the Ramparts
1984 | 28mins
The story of the settlement of Irish immigrants in the North Bronx, New York, and how the once predominantly Irish neighborhoods are changing because of the influx of other groups.
Closing Time
2006 | 33mins
Closing Time
2006 | 33mins
The New York real estate market forces the oldest store in Little Italy to shut down. The film is a portrait of a family, of the neighborhood that used to be and of the way the…
Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
With verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and…
Deep Ellum Blues
1985 | 10mins
Deep Ellum Blues
1985 | 10mins
Deep Ellum, along with its legendary music scene built by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely, all but disappeared with the…
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2006 | 53mins
From Mambo to Hip Hop
2006 | 53mins
From Mambo to Hip-Hop dances through the history of a borough that nurtured two musical movements: the mambo that evolved into salsa, and the hip-hop that arose from the most…
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
A film on Irish immigrant musicians and their offspring, tracing the influences of family and community, ethnic identity, and American popular culture on the traditional music…
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Nowhere in America does a stretch of pavement slice through a more vibrant and diverse cross-section of humanity than Chicago's Halsted Street. Along its length one can view a…
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Alan Lomax's overview of the Jazz scene in New Orleans with interviews and performances by Majestic Band, the Preservation Hall Band (Willie Humphrey, James "Sing" Miller, Emanuel…
Jumpin‘ Night in the Garden of Eden
1987 | 1h 15mins
Jumpin‘ Night in the Garden of Eden
1987 | 1h 15mins
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden was the first film to document the klezmer revival, tracing the efforts of two founding groups, Kapelye and Boston's Klezmer Conservatory…
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
The Kings of Christmas, introduces the men and women, the vast majority of whom are Italian-American, behind the biggest, brightest, and most over-the-top holiday decorated houses…
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
“Look Forward and Carry on the Past": Stories from Philadelphia’s Chinatown” illustrates the strength and complexity of Philadelphia’s only remaining community of color in the…
Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
A documentary on the Brooklyn St. Paulinus Festival. This film explores ethnicity, cultural traditions, and religious devotion as the performers, participants, and community…
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Long before the advent of hip-hop as a multi-million dollar industry, African Americans were rapping and rhyming in the street, in their neighborhoods, and on the fish market…
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