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Moving Mountains

Moving Mountains

Moving Mountains

High in the mountains of Laos the Yiu Mien lived as they had for centuries until the Vietnam War forced them to leave their homeland and come to America....catapulted from one…

Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler

Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler

Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler

Ms. Butler and her son, the Reverend Rober Butler, play at folk festivals and churches throughout New York City

Les Blues de Balfa

Les Blues de Balfa

Les Blues de Balfa

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…

Cajun Visits

A series of musical portraits of traditional Cajun master musicians Denis McGee, Wallace “Cheese” Read, Canray Fontenot, Leopold François and Robert Jardell at home in rural…

Battle of the Guitars

Battle of the Guitars

Battle of the Guitars

This is one of three short films in the Living Texas Blues series. Battle of the Guitars shows the influence of Aaron "T-Bone" Walker through the performance of Pete Mayes and Joe…

Cigarette Blues

Cigarette Blues

Cigarette Blues

This is one of three short films in the Living Texas Blues series. Cigarette Blues features Sonny Rhodes and the Texas Twisters performing at Eli's Mile High Club in Oakland,…

Deep Ellum Blues

Deep Ellum Blues

Deep Ellum Blues

Deep Ellum, along with its legendary music scene built by the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Willie Johnson, Lead Belly, and Bill Neely, all but disappeared with the…

Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe

Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe

Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe

The three day pageant celebrates the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692 by the Spanish over the Pueblo Indians. Interviews and scenes of Fiesta preparation, ultimately, raised…

Style Wars

1983 | 1h 9mins

1983 | 1h 9mins

New York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…

Black on White, White and Black

Black on White, White and Black

Black on White, White and Black

An intimate and humorous look at the life and career of the legendary blues pianist Alex Moore, a native of Dallas, was the first African American Texan to receive a National…

Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker

Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker

Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker

Henry Elijah "Lige" Langston was born in 1908 in the Great Basin outback on a homestead. He worked his entire life as a wrangler and rawhide braider in the region known as the…

Dance for a Chicken

Dance for a Chicken

Dance for a Chicken

This award-winning film brims over with stunning images of carnival play and a rich soundtrack of hot Cajun music. Cajun filmmaker Pat Mire gives us an inside look at the…

Old Believers

Hixon\'s film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The film briefly touches on a wealth of…

Red Alexander

This video documents the passions of 80 year old "Red" Alexander: building ships (both model and real), wood working, and story telling. Red was encouraged by the sale of one of…

Mouth Music

Boot-camp count-off chants, jump-rope rhymes, and carny barks are featured in this fast-moving sampler of “proto-music” from the imaginations and versatile mouths of southern folk…

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