Narrative & Verbal Arts: Storytelling Films

I Ain‘t Lying
I Ain‘t Lying
1975 | 22mins
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I Ain‘t Lying
1975 | 22mins
16mm color documentary based on fieldwork William Ferris conducted with African American storytellers and bluesmen in the communities of Leland and Rose Hill, Mississippi. The…
In the Moment
In the Moment
2022 | 1h
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In the Moment
2022 | 1h
In the Moment introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, bertsolari poets, extempo and freestyle rap artists from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal,…
La Décima Borinqueña
La Décima Borinqueña
2005 | 23mins
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La Décima Borinqueña
2005 | 23mins
Portrayal of four renowned Puerto Rican décima troubadours as they come together to revive the Roundtable tradition and to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Don Quixote…
Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker
Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker
1985 | 29mins
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Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker
1985 | 29mins
Henry Elijah "Lige" Langston was born in 1908 in the Great Basin outback on a homestead. He worked his entire life as a wrangler and rawhide braider in the region known as the…
Living Stone
Living Stone
1958 | 34mins
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Living Stone
1958 | 34mins
This documentary shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film…
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
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Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Long before the advent of hip-hop as a multi-million dollar industry, African Americans were rapping and rhyming in the street, in their neighborhoods, and on the fish market…
Mountain Talk
Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
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Mountain Talk
2003 | 56mins
Language and Life in Southern Appalachia – The people of Southern Appalachia survived for centuries in a rugged and remote landscape. Their historic isolation promoted the…
Other Side of Eden trailer
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
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Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
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…
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1967 | 18mins
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Pizza Pizza Daddy-O
1967 | 18mins
PIZZA PIZZA DADDY-O (1967) looks at continuity and change in girl's playground games at a Los Angeles school.
Ray Lum
Ray Lum
1972 | 18mins
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Ray Lum
1972 | 18mins
Ray Lum (1891--1977) was a mule skinner, a livestock trader, an auctioneer, and an American original.
Red Alexander
Red Alexander
1998 | 25mins
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Red Alexander
1998 | 25mins
This video documents the passions of 80 year old "Red" Alexander: building ships (both model and real), wood working, and story telling. Red was encouraged by the sale of one of…
Remembering Emmanuel Church
Remembering Emmanuel Church
2000 | 37mins
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Remembering Emmanuel Church
2000 | 37mins
An oral history of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Fauquier County, Virginia. The storytellers are masters-all of them members of the congregation from the old farming community…
Remembering The High Lonesome
Remembering The High Lonesome
2003 | 27mins
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Remembering The High Lonesome
2003 | 27mins
Profiles filmmaker, photographer, artist, and musician John Cohen. The film examines the birth of a new artistic ethic and counterculture through John Cohen's involvement with the…
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
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Sonny Terry: Shoutin' the Blues
1969 | 5mins
Shot in 1969, SHOUTIN' THE BLUES is a one shot, one story and one song short film of harmonica great, Sonny Terry. Seated in a motel room on Broadway in Oakland, California where…
Stranger With a Camera
Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
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Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on…

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