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Finah Misa Kule
Finah Misa Kule
2015 | 41mins
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Finah Misa Kule
2015 | 41mins
In Search of Finah Misa Kule chronicles the quest of poet Kewulay Kamara to reconstitute an ancient epic handed down in his family.
Fire Dance
Fire Dance
2002 | 27mins
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Fire Dance
2002 | 27mins
Fire Dance presents the emerging art form called fire dancing, as practiced in the northwestern United States. The dancers explain their attraction to "playing with fire", how…
Flight of the Dove
Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
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Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
A portrait of the Portuguese-American dairy-farming community in the Chino Valley of southern California. This is one of the first films ever to document the experiences and…
Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe
Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe
1992 | 46mins
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Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe
1992 | 46mins
The three day pageant celebrates the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692 by the Spanish over the Pueblo Indians. Interviews and scenes of Fiesta preparation, ultimately, raised…
Hello Columbus
Hello Columbus
1986 | 26mins
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Hello Columbus
1986 | 26mins
Popular media personality Mal Sharpe guides viewers through an Italian-American Columbus Day celebration in San Francisco where we meet Joe Cervetto, a legend in the city for his…
Hong Kong Hungry Ghost Festival
Hong Kong Hungry Ghost Festival
1971 | 28mins
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Hong Kong Hungry Ghost Festival
1971 | 28mins
Hrvati!
Hrvati!
1982
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Hrvati!
1982
Half-hour documentary on the artistic and cultural heritage of Croatian immigrants in Washington state. Broadcast February 25,1981. Exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution Folk…
Indian Field Camp Meeting
Indian Field Camp Meeting
2007 | 58mins
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Indian Field Camp Meeting
2007 | 58mins
Documentary producer and filmmaker Stan Woodward has devoted approximately seven years and filmed over 170 hours on five Lowcountry campgrounds
It Ain't City Music
It Ain't City Music
1973 | 15mins
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It Ain't City Music
1973 | 15mins
It Ain't City Music was filmed at the National Country Music Contest at Lake Whippoorwill in Warrenton, Virginia, in 1972. "Any country song you hear nowadays, the guy's either in…
Jazz Parades
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
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Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Alan Lomax's overview of the Jazz scene in New Orleans with interviews and performances by Majestic Band, the Preservation Hall Band (Willie Humphrey, James "Sing" Miller, Emanuel…
Kings of Christmas
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
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Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
The Kings of Christmas, introduces the men and women, the vast majority of whom are Italian-American, behind the biggest, brightest, and most over-the-top holiday decorated houses…
Language You Cry In
Language You Cry In
1998 | 52mins
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Language You Cry In
1998 | 52mins
The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles, from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of…
Men Who Dance the Giglio
Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
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Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
A documentary on the Brooklyn St. Paulinus Festival. This film explores ethnicity, cultural traditions, and religious devotion as the performers, participants, and community…
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…
Moving Mountains
Moving Mountains
1989 | 58mins
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Moving Mountains
1989 | 58mins
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…

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