Rural Life Films (South)

OK Mr. Ray
OK Mr. Ray
2026 | 18mins
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OK Mr. Ray
2026 | 18mins
Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
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Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.
Looking for Trouble
Looking for Trouble
2013 | 31mins
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Looking for Trouble
2013 | 31mins
Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…
Virginia Peanut Story
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
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Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…
Cajun Country
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
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Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
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Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
Everything Change Up Now
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
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Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…
Hush Hoggies Hush
Hush Hoggies Hush
1978 | 4mins
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Hush Hoggies Hush
1978 | 4mins
Meet Tom Johnson and his praying pigs. "Been fooling with them hogs for 35 long years," Johnson says in the film as he rocks on the porch of his modest residence near Bentonia,…
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
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Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
B/w 16mm documentary film based on fieldwork Ferris conducted with Leland, Mississippi, bluesman and folk artist James "Son" Thomas. Included is footage of Thomas performing at…
Tommie Bass
Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
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Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
At the time of his death in 1996, "Tommie" Bass, was probably the most well-known herbalist in the United States. The subject of scholarly and popular books, television features,…
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
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Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Portrait of Lucreaty Clark (1903 - 1986), an African American oak basket maker from rural Florida. Clark embraced a wide repertoire of traditional African American songs, games…
Les Blues de Balfa
Les Blues de Balfa
1983 | 26mins
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Les Blues de Balfa
1983 | 26mins
A portrait of Southwestern Louisana\'s Balfa Brothers, ambassadors of traditional Cajun music to the world. Filmed in Louisiana between 1978 and 1981, the film focuses on the…
Zydeco
Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
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Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
Nick Spitzer film on African American dance-hall music in French-speaking southwest Louisiana, with Dolon Carriere, Armand Ardoin, and Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin.
Anything I Catch
Anything I Catch
1990 | 30mins
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Anything I Catch
1990 | 30mins
This film examines the thrilling regional phenomenon of Cajuns who wade in murky bayou waters to catch huge catfish and turtles by reaching into hollow logs and stumps with their…
Blues Houseparty
Blues Houseparty
1989 | 57mins
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Blues Houseparty
1989 | 57mins
John Jackson, John Dee Holeman, Friz Holloway and others perform and reminisce about old-time houseparties in North Carolina and Virginia

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