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When My Work Is Over

When My Work Is Over

When My Work Is Over

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

Dreadful Memories

Dreadful Memories

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…

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God

Powerhouse for God is a portrait of an old-fashioned Baptist preacher John Sherfy, his family, and their church in Virginia's northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Audiences who were…

This Is My Home Now

This Is My Home Now

This Is My Home Now

This is My Home Now explores the lives of four youths from three Montagnard immigrant families who have fled their homelands in Southeast Asia to forge a new future in North…

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

This classic, entertaining documentary on American traditional music features varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the “melting pot” of American society.

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old Time Music

Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks takes on the commonly-held folk music scholarship assertion that women did not widely participate in old-time…

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Blues Like Showers of Rain

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Dance to the Music and Listen to the Calls

Larry Edelman produced this video in 1987 while studying square dance calling with Jerry Goodwin. Recorded at the Prosperity Fire Hall in western Pennsylvania the video features…

Post Industrial Fiddle

Post Industrial Fiddle

Post Industrial Fiddle

This deceptively simple but profound film explores the importance of music-making in the life of Jerry Morrell, a pulp mill worker in rural Maine. His “Down East” fiddling style…

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…

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