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Wild Caught

2006 | 1h 29mins

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

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

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

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout

Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout

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

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

Navajo Talking Pictures

Navajo Talking Pictures

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother.

Halsted Street USA

Halsted Street USA

Halsted Street USA

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

Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets

Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets

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

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

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

J. B. Murray: Writing in Unknown Tongues

J. B. Murray: Writing in Unknown Tongues

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

Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker

Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker

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…

Give the World a Smile

Give the World a Smile

Give the World a Smile

For generations, the Schuyler family has lived and farmed around the Lowgap Community in North Carolina, and for generations they have produced singers who led revival meetings,…

Buna and Bertha

Buna and Bertha

Buna and Bertha

Performance of and commentary on Anglo-American ballads and songs by 86 and 92 year old mountain women, Buna Hicks of Beech Creek and Bertha Baird of Rominger in western North…

Gandy Dancers 1973

Gandy Dancers 1973

Gandy Dancers 1973

This remarkable film features field recordings of work chants of Gandy Dancers including aligning songs and chants to knock out slack in the rail.

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