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Making of Muna Muday

Making of Muna Muday

Making of Muna Muday

Portrait of a young Somalie woman who immigrated to Nashville Tenn when she was 10.

Accordions Rising

Accordions Rising

2015 | 1h 13mins

Accordions Rising

2015 | 1h 13mins

Accordions Rising offers entertaining, conversation-style interviews, anecdotal commentary, and both formal and informal music performances by celebrated accordionists, composers,…

This Is My Home Now

This Is My Home Now

This Is My Home Now

This is My Home Now explores the lives of four youths from three Montagnard immigrant families who have fled their homelands in Southeast Asia to forge a new future in North…

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

Musical Holdouts

This classic, entertaining documentary on American traditional music features varied individuals and groups who have not become part of the “melting pot” of American society.

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Marty Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They…

Old Believers

Hixon\'s film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The film briefly touches on a wealth of…

From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels

From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels

From Shore to Shore - Retrospective Reels

Beginning in April 1988, a number of oral histories and Irish traditional music and dance performances were videotaped for the documentary From Shore To Shore: Irish Traditional…

Crossroads

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

Weaving Bitter with the Sweet

Weaving Bitter with the Sweet

Weaving Bitter with the Sweet

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…

From Shore to Shore

From Shore to Shore

From Shore to Shore

A film on Irish immigrant musicians and their offspring, tracing the influences of family and community, ethnic identity, and American popular culture on the traditional music…

Celebracion del Matrimonio

Celebracion del Matrimonio

Celebracion del Matrimonio

This film records a rural wedding in the American Hispanic community of El Rito, New Mexico, with reminiscences and commentaries that show continuities, changes, and meanings in…

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