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Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones tells the story of the director's father, James H. Jones, a farmer who emerges as a trailblazer during the 1969 school desegregation crisis sparked when Northampton…
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. By 1994, there were more than 300,000. Displaced in the New South explores the cultural collision…
Cowhand‘s Song
1981 | 30mins
Cowhand‘s Song
1981 | 30mins
This evocative documentary examines the plight of the ranchers of Nevada and California, who find their grazing areas increasingly threatened by many groups (even…
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
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…
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
When My Work Is Over
2000 | 38mins
The gifted African American storyteller Louise Anderson (1921-1994) tells her family stories and folk tales, and recites poetry in this film taped in Jacksonville, North Carolina,…
Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
Dreadful Memories
1988 | 38mins
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the…
Home Across the Water
1992 | 27mins
Home Across the Water
1992 | 27mins
A film about the efforts of Sea Islanders in South Carolina and Georgia to preserve their cultural identity and cope with the development of the islands as exclusive resorts.
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
In March 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Company closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in operation. “With These…
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
WILD CAUGHT chronicles the lives of fisherman carrying out small scale, sustainable commercial fishing in the town of Snead\'s Ferry, North Carolina, and their struggles to keep…
Pilebutts
2003 | 28mins
Pilebutts
2003 | 28mins
A union-produced documentary about pile drivers, courageous men and women better known as "pilebutts," who secure structures like bridges and skyscrapers to the earth. Pilebutts…
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
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…
Jim Northrup: With Reservations
1996 | 28mins
Jim Northrup: With Reservations
1996 | 28mins
Jim Northrup: With Reservations is a half-hour portrait of the Anishinaabe / Ojibwe / Chippewa writer/activist from Naagajiwanaang (Fond du Lac) in northern Minnesota. A lively…
His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
Ethel Caffie-Austin, daughter of the coalfields, is West Virginia\'s "First Lady of Gospel Music." This program features Ethel performing a range of spirituals, hymns and…
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
Look Forward and Carry on the Past
2002 | 26mins
“Look Forward and Carry on the Past": Stories from Philadelphia’s Chinatown” illustrates the strength and complexity of Philadelphia’s only remaining community of color in the…
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