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End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

End of an Old Song

Filmed in the mountains of North Carolina, this acclaimed documentary revisits the region where English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected British ballads in the early 1900s. The…

Going, Going, Going

Going, Going, Going

Going, Going, Going

Bronx Irish at the Ramparts

Bronx Irish at the Ramparts

Bronx Irish at the Ramparts

The story of the settlement of Irish immigrants in the North Bronx, New York, and how the once predominantly Irish neighborhoods are changing because of the influx of other groups.

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Fannie Bell Chapman: Gospel Singer

Film of the singer/faith healer and folk artist Fannie Bell Chapman from Centreville, Mississippi. Footage includes Chapman and her family singing and praying during church…

Unbroken Tradition

Unbroken Tradition

Unbroken Tradition

Unbroken Tradition is a portrait of Jerry Brown, a ninth generation potter from Hamilton, Alabama. It looks at the continuation of this family tradition since Jerry's…

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

A 1982 portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting the fragile community of memory connecting one with parents and…

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

The portrayal of rural Indiana group, The Patoka Valley Boys, a six-person string band comprising one of America's finest old-time and bluegrass musical groups.

Pilebutts

A union-produced documentary about pile drivers, courageous men and women better known as "pilebutts," who secure structures like bridges and skyscrapers to the earth. Pilebutts…

Almeda Riddle

This 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…

Woodsmen and River Drivers

Woodsmen and River Drivers

Woodsmen and River Drivers

Men and women who worked for the Machias Lumber Company before 1930 share their recollections of the logging industry in Maine when they cut trees by hand, hauled logs to the…

Steppin‘

Introduces viewers to the step show, an exciting dance style popular today among black fraternities and sororities. In addition to many rousing, crowd-pleasing performances, the…

Catching the Music

Catching the Music

Catching the Music

An hour-long WETA-TV documentary on musician Stephen Wade. Catching the Music describes the passing of the banjo from one player to the next. The film includes footage of Kirk…

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts was a ground breaking film used by folklorists, anthropologists and historians of art and womens history that presented the lives, art, work and philosophy of ordinary…

Cowboy Poets

American cowboys have been writing poetry for more than a century. Cowboy Poets profiles three cowboy reciters--Waddie Mitchell, Slim Kite and Wally McRae--representing three…

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Marty Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They…

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