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Fire Dance
2002 | 27mins
Fire Dance
2002 | 27mins
Fire Dance presents the emerging art form called fire dancing, as practiced in the northwestern United States. The dancers explain their attraction to "playing with fire", how…
Weaving Bitter with the Sweet
2003 | 30mins
Weaving Bitter with the Sweet
2003 | 30mins
A portrait of a Lao refugee woman Mone Saenphimmachak who seeks to overcome loss through the weaving for which her people are famous. Mone Saenphimmachak is a National Heritage…
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
In March 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Company closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in operation. “With These…
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
WILD CAUGHT chronicles the lives of fisherman carrying out small scale, sustainable commercial fishing in the town of Snead\'s Ferry, North Carolina, and their struggles to keep…
New Life
2000 | 55mins
New Life
2000 | 55mins
A.R. Cole began building a barn in 1927 and asked his wife if it should be for tobacco or pottery. She did not have a preference and realized it was to be for pottery when the…
Rapture Family
1976 | 59mins
Rapture Family
1976 | 59mins
In this film William Wiggins discusses the religious drama In the Rapture with its creator Margerine Hatcher and some of the cast that were to perform it the next day for the…
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout
1987 | 28mins
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout
1987 | 28mins
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout takes an intimate look at artist Howard Finster as he conducts a workshop or a "workout" as he calls it, at Mountain Lake, Virginia.…
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
1993 | 1h 31mins
Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music
1993 | 1h 31mins
I’d like for them to remember me as the father of Bluegrass music, the man that originated this music. —Bill Monroe
Navajo Talking Pictures
1986 | 40mins
Navajo Talking Pictures
1986 | 40mins
Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother.
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Nowhere in America does a stretch of pavement slice through a more vibrant and diverse cross-section of humanity than Chicago's Halsted Street. Along its length one can view a…
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Long before the advent of hip-hop as a multi-million dollar industry, African Americans were rapping and rhyming in the street, in their neighborhoods, and on the fish market…
Carolina Hash
2008 | 56mins
Carolina Hash
2008 | 56mins
Carolina Hash starts with establishing as fact the myth that hash-popularity ends at the South Carolina borders. We learn that right across the state line in North Carolina,…
Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
A rare 1975 film on a rural impoverished community in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. This remarkable film deals with stereotypes of improvised rural life, but unfolds into…
J. B. Murray: Writing in Unknown Tongues
1986 | 9mins
J. B. Murray: Writing in Unknown Tongues
1986 | 9mins
J. B. Murray (1908-1988) was a farmer who lived in rural Glascock County, Georgia, near the community of Mitchel. When he was approximately seventy years of age, believing he had…
Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
1973 | 6mins
Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
1973 | 6mins
Edd Presnell, a mountain craftsman and native of Watauga County, North Carolina, demonstrates and comments on the construction of a dulcimer. Presnell learned his craft from his…
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