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Final Marks
1979 | 49mins
Final Marks
1979 | 49mins
A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the…
Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
The story of the Woottens of Sand Mountain, Alabama, one of the key singing families who have helped Sacred Harp music survive and flourish for more than 150 years. The video…
Our Lives in Our Hands
1986 | 49mins
Our Lives in Our Hands
1986 | 49mins
This 1986 film examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern…
Talking Feet
1987 | 1h 27mins
Talking Feet
1987 | 1h 27mins
Talking Feet is the first documentary to feature flatfoot, buck, hoedown, and rural tap dancing, the styles of solo Southern dancing which are a companion to traditional old-time…
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of…
Land Where the Blues Began
1979 | 58mins
Land Where the Blues Began
1979 | 58mins
In the late 1970s Alan Lomax traveled to Mississippi with filmmaker John Bishop and folklorist Worth Long and made this film about the African American music he found there.
Accordions Rising
2015 | 1h 13mins
Accordions Rising
2015 | 1h 13mins
Accordions Rising offers entertaining, conversation-style interviews, anecdotal commentary, and both formal and informal music performances by celebrated accordionists, composers,…
How to Build an Igloo
1949 | 10mins
How to Build an Igloo
1949 | 10mins
From The National Film Board of Canada. This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut…
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
On a hot July night in 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia slipped into his landowner’s home “Edenhurst,” beat him unconscious with a piece of stove wood, and dragged…
Madison County Project
2005 | 24mins
Madison County Project
2005 | 24mins
This video examines the tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing in Madison County, North Carolina and how both documentary work and the power of family and community have…
Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story
2003 | 53mins
Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story
2003 | 53mins
The legendary Hackberry Ramblers served up a spicy blend of Cajun music mixed with western swing, classic country, blues and rockabilly, with a dash of Gulf Coast swamp pop.
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1967 | 18mins
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1967 | 18mins
PIZZA PIZZA DADDY-O (1967) looks at continuity and change in girl's playground games at a Los Angeles school.
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
The gifted African American storyteller Louise Anderson (1921-1994) tells her family stories and folk tales, and recites poetry in this film taped in Jacksonville, North Carolina,…
Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the…
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