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Hollow, The
Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
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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
J. B. Murray: Writing in Unknown Tongues
1986 | 9mins
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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
Edd Presnell: Dulcimer Maker
1973 | 6mins
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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…
Give the World a Smile
Give the World a Smile
1981 | 26mins
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Give the World a Smile
1981 | 26mins
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
1973 | 13mins
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Buna and Bertha
1973 | 13mins
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
1973 | 14mins
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Gandy Dancers 1973
1973 | 14mins
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
1977 | 29mins
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This Cat Can Play Anything
1977 | 29mins
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
Moveable Feast
1993 | 29mins
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Moveable Feast
1993 | 29mins
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
1972 | 8mins
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Its All In My Hands
1972 | 8mins
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
1989 | 57mins
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Blues Houseparty
1989 | 57mins
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
2000 | 49mins
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Hamburger and Dolma
2000 | 49mins
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
1978 | 29mins
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Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
1978 | 29mins
A candid portrait of the Tennesse ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.
Jim Northrup: With Reservations
Jim Northrup: With Reservations
1996 | 28mins
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Jim Northrup: With Reservations
1996 | 28mins
Jim Northrup: With Reservations is a half-hour portrait of the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa writer/activist from Naagajiwanaang (Fond du Lac) in northern Minnesota. A lively…
Art of Ironworking
Art of Ironworking
2011 | 16mins
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Art of Ironworking
2011 | 16mins
The culture and identity of contemporary ironworkers in southwestern Wisconsin.
Crossroads
Crossroads
1997 | 52mins
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Crossroads
1997 | 52mins
August 1996, in Uvalde, Texas: the Hernandez family holds a reunion, undoubtedly one of many such gatherings held that summer in small towns across the nation.

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