Featured Films
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Almeda Riddle1985 | 28mins
Almeda Riddle1985 | 28minsThis video tells how and where Arkansas ballad singer Almeda Riddle began her 10 year stint of singing old ballads all over the country. In an informal manner, folk musician Starr… -
While The Ages Roll On1990 | 29minsWhile The Ages Roll On1990 | 29minsFilmmaker Kevin Ballings writes...My interest in this topic is not religious, but cultural and ethnographic. The Old Regular Baptists are one of the most traditional religious… -
Music For The Sky2008 | 1hMusic For The Sky2008 | 1hMusic for the Sky (2008) is a documentary movie about a community of eccentric revivalist old-time fiddlers living in Vermont and Western Massachusetts, USA. The film revolves… -
I Ain‘t Lying1975 | 22minsI Ain‘t Lying1975 | 22mins16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The… -
Ballad of Frankie Silver1996 | 47minsBallad of Frankie Silver1996 | 47minsIn 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. Tom Davenport's film explores the case through the singing and…