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We Are Arabbers
2004 | 1h 21mins
We Are Arabbers
2004 | 1h 21mins
We Are Arabbers follows the horse-and-wagon produce vendors along the streets of Baltimore, Maryland as they struggle to make a living and maintain their unique culture.
This Is Our Slaughterhouse
2000 | 22mins
This Is Our Slaughterhouse
2000 | 22mins
This 22 minute documentary follows the ten workers of Broerman Poultry Processing, revealing their surprisingly close relationships, despite the gruesome nature of their job. The…
Amish: A People of Preservation
1975 | 54mins
Amish: A People of Preservation
1975 | 54mins
The Amish keep surprising their technology-programmed neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans wish they could recapture. Mennonite historian John…
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison
1966 | 29mins
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison
1966 | 29mins
Pete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by…
Final Marks
1979 | 49mins
Final Marks
1979 | 49mins
A documentary about lettercutting, in both monumental inscriptions and on gravestones. The filmmakers were given complete access over a two year period to the work of the…
Our Lives in Our Hands
1986 | 49mins
Our Lives in Our Hands
1986 | 49mins
This 1986 film examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern…
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben‘s Mill
1981 | 26mins
Ben Thresher's mill is one of the few water-powered, wood-working mills left in this country. Operating in rural Vermont since 1848, the mill is a unique link between the age of…
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…
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…
Going, Going, Going
1990 | 59mins
Going, Going, Going
1990 | 59mins
Unbroken Tradition
1986 | 29mins
Unbroken Tradition
1986 | 29mins
Unbroken Tradition is a portrait of Jerry Brown, a ninth generation potter from Hamilton, Alabama. It looks at the continuation of this family tradition since Jerry's…
Finnish American Lives
1982 | 45mins
Finnish American Lives
1982 | 45mins
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…
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…
Woodsmen and River Drivers
1989 | 28mins
Woodsmen and River Drivers
1989 | 28mins
Men and women who worked for the Machias Lumber Company before 1930 share their recollections of the logging industry in Maine when they cut trees by hand, hauled logs to the…
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