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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.

This Cat Can Play Anything

This Cat Can Play Anything

This Cat Can Play Anything

A portrayal of the life and musical career of New Orleans banjo and guitar jazzman Emanuel 'Manny' Sayles, a man whose musical career has in many ways followed the development of…

Moveable Feast

This documentary follows a group of Italian-Americans from Boston's North End to their ancestral hometown, Sciacca, Sicily, to participate in the Feast of the Madonna del Soccorso…

Its All In My Hands

Its All In My Hands

Its All In My Hands

Young Italian American shoemaker John Prince, following in his father Tony's footsteps, invites you into his shop to share the pleasure and pride he feels from his work.

Blues Houseparty

Blues Houseparty

Blues Houseparty

John Jackson, John Dee Holeman, Friz Holloway and others perform and reminisce about old-time houseparties in North Carolina and Virginia

Hamburger and Dolma

Hamburger and Dolma

Hamburger and Dolma

Over preparations of a sumptuous Armenian meal of stuffed vegetables (dolma), five Armenian-American women discuss their feelings of alienation from their ethnic community and…

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

Hamper McBee: Raw Mash

A candid portrait of the Tennesse ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.

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