All Films (South)

Looking for Trouble
Looking for Trouble
2013 | 31mins
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Looking for Trouble
2013 | 31mins
Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…
Death Row
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
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Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…
Upperville Show
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
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Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
The Upperville Colt & Horse Show is the oldest horse show in America. Established in 1853 by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, who also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the show…
Virginia Peanut Story
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
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Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…
Sacred Soul
Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
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Sacred Soul
2021 | 32mins
Eleven groups in eight days. A marathon recording session in a makeshift storefront studio in a 100-year-old building in the tiny Eastern North Carolina town of Fountain. Once the…
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
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Dink: A Pre-Blues Musician
1975 | 30mins
Other Side of Eden
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
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Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
On a hot July night in 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia slipped into his landowner’s home “Edenhurst,” beat him unconscious with a piece of stove wood, and dragged…
Singing Stream
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
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Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…
Cajun Country
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
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Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…
We Shall Not Be Moved
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
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We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was supposed to give sharecroppers a chance at land ownership. But for Black farmers in Tillery, North Carolina,…
Shady Grove Camp Ground
Shady Grove Camp Ground
2007 | 1h 11mins
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Shady Grove Camp Ground
2007 | 1h 11mins
Documentary producer and filmmaker Stan Woodward has devoted approximately seven years and filmed over 170 hours on five Lowcountry campgrounds
Cradle is Rocking
Cradle is Rocking
1968 | 12mins
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Cradle is Rocking
1968 | 12mins
George "Kid Shiek" Colar and the Olympia Brass Band are featured in this rare film about New Orleans Jazz, directed by Frank DeCola and photographed by Tom Davenport.
Born for Hard Luck
Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
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Born for Hard Luck
1976 | 29mins
A film portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buckdances, and a live medicine-show performance.
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
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Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
Jack and the Dentist‘s Daughter
Jack and the Dentist‘s Daughter
1984 | 38mins
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Jack and the Dentist‘s Daughter
1984 | 38mins
In this comic variant of the tale type , "The Master Thief, a poor laborer's son wants to marry the dentist's daughter.

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