Featured Films
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Cradle is Rocking1968 | 12mins
Cradle is Rocking1968 | 12minsGeorge "Kid Shiek" Colar and the Olympia Brass Band are featured in this rare film about New Orleans Jazz, directed by Frank DeCola and photographed by Tom Davenport. -
Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge2009 | 26minsMr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge2009 | 26minsWhen Mr. Jimmy Moore challenged himself to run 80 kilometers in 1 day for his 80th birthday, his small Mississippi town got behind him to see if they too could "run their age,"… -
Street Music1979 | 57minsStreet Music1979 | 57minsFilmmaker Nicholas Doob's road trip across Amerca. Performers: Pork Chop (New Orleans), Arthur C. Brenner (Savannah), Bongo Joe (San Antonio), John Wood/Rodney Gregory/ Floyd Bell… -
Singing Fishermen of Ghana1964 | 13minsSinging 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… -
Why Quilts Matter 08: Quilt Nation – 20,000,000 and Counting!2011 | 28minsWhy Quilts Matter 08: Quilt Nation – 20,000,000 and Counting!2011 | 28mins“Quilt making,” as one quilt maker says, “is the greatest mass movement nobody ever heard of.” The population of the American quilt world outnumbers those of many small countries,…