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Language You Cry In

Language You Cry In

Language You Cry In

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…

Flight of the Dove

Flight of the Dove

Flight of the Dove

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…

I‘ll Keep On Singing

I‘ll Keep On Singing

I‘ll Keep On Singing

A comprehensive look ca. 2007 at southern gospel convention singing, an amateur, Christian, music-making and educational tradition that developed in rural America following the…

Look Forward and Carry on the Past

Look Forward and Carry on the Past

Look Forward and Carry on the Past

“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…

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…

Blinking Madonna

Blinking Madonna

Blinking Madonna

After recording an Italian-American religious festival in Boston’s North End with her video camera, filmmaker Beth Harrington’s neighbors tell her that they see a miracle on the…

Morris Chronicle

Morris Chronicle

2006 | 1h 51mins

Morris Chronicle

2006 | 1h 51mins

Cattle Creek Camp Part 2

Cattle Creek Camp Part 2

Cattle Creek Camp Part 2

For many families at Cattle Creek Campground, the annual camp meeting signifies a time of fellowship when families can spend a week away from the hectic pace of modern life.

Cattle Creek Camp Part 1

Cattle Creek Camp Part 1

Cattle Creek Camp Part 1

For many families at Cattle Creek Campground, the annual camp meeting signifies a time of fellowship when families can spend a week away from the hectic pace of modern life.

Ehrhardt Five and Dime

Ehrhardt Five and Dime

Ehrhardt Five and Dime

There are two downtown stores that have been the cornerstone of Ehrhardt, South Carolina for nearly a hundred years: the Ehrhardt 5 and 10, and Ehrhardt Grocery, once formerly…

Singing Stream Reunion

Singing Stream Reunion

Singing Stream Reunion

This 57 minute documentary continues the story of the Landis family of Creedmoor, NC into the 21 Century. The first film " A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle" was…

While The Ages Roll On

While The Ages Roll On

While The Ages Roll On

Filmmaker Kevin Ballings writes...My interest in this topic is not religious, but cultural and ethnographic. The Old Regular Baptists are one of the most traditional religious…

Finah Misa Kule

Finah Misa Kule

Finah Misa Kule

In Search of Finah Misa Kule chronicles the quest of poet Kewulay Kamara to reconstitute an ancient epic handed down in his family.

Watermen

1968 | 1h 3mins

1968 | 1h 3mins

In 1965, Maryland watermen on the Chesapeake Bay operated the last U.S. fleet of sailing workboats, using "skipjacks" to dredge oysters under a motorized dredging ban. Filmmakers…

Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco

Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco

Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco

A 1988 8mm video documentary about the street children of San Francisco. The video documents the expressive traditions of a group of young runaways who formed an alternative…

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