Featured Films
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Singing Fishermen of Ghana1964 | 13mins
Singing Fishermen of Ghana1964 | 13minsPete and Toshi Seeger documented work songs of a fishing community in Ghana, the West-African roots of the work-song tradition shown in the films "Afro American Worksongs in a… -
Remembering The High Lonesome2003 | 27minsRemembering The High Lonesome2003 | 27minsProfiles filmmaker, photographer, artist, and musician John Cohen. The film examines the birth of a new artistic ethic and counterculture through John Cohen\'s involvement with… -
Born for Hard Luck1976 | 29minsBorn for Hard Luck1976 | 29minsA film portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buckdances, and a live medicine-show performance. -
Mountain Talk2003 | 56minsMountain Talk2003 | 56minsLanguage and Life in Southern Appalachia – The people of Southern Appalachia survived for centuries in a rugged and remote landscape. Their historic isolation promoted the… -
Style Wars1983 | 1h 9minsStyle Wars1983 | 1h 9minsNew York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…