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Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

A 1982 portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting the fragile community of memory connecting one with parents and…

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

The portrayal of rural Indiana group, The Patoka Valley Boys, a six-person string band comprising one of America's finest old-time and bluegrass musical groups.

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…

Home Movie

This 1974 documentary produced in the era before video cameras chronicles the tradition of home movies in American family folklore. It explores the common themes in family films,…

Sonny Ford, Delta Artist

Sonny Ford, Delta Artist

Sonny Ford, Delta Artist

B/w 16mm documentary film based on fieldwork Ferris conducted with Leland, Mississippi, bluesman and folk artist James "Son" Thomas. Included is footage of Thomas performing at…

Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder

Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder

Monument of Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder

Chief Thunder's artistry is the testament of a great American folk artist.The film captures the tragedy of his life, his painful isolation, the beauty of his work, and his…

Every Island has its Own Songs

Every Island has its Own Songs

Every Island has its Own Songs

Nikitas Tsimouris (1924 - 2001) brought the complex music of the tsabouna, a type of Greek bagpipe, to Tarpon Springs. In 1991, Tsimouris became the first Floridian to receive a…

Moving Mountains

Moving Mountains

Moving Mountains

High in the mountains of Laos the Yiu Mien lived as they had for centuries until the Vietnam War forced them to leave their homeland and come to America....catapulted from one…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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.

Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge

Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge

Mr. Jimmy‘s Birthday Challenge

When Mr. Jimmy Moore challenged himself to run 80 kilometers in 1 day for his 80th birthday, his small Mississippi town got behind him to see if they too could "run their age,"…

Blow the Tannery Whistle

Blow the Tannery Whistle

Blow the Tannery Whistle

Playwrite Gary Carden's story of growing up in Sylva, North Carolina.

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