Rural Life Films

Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
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Learned it in Back Days and Kept It
1981 | 28mins
Portrait of Lucreaty Clark (1903 - 1986), an African American oak basket maker from rural Florida. Clark embraced a wide repertoire of traditional African American songs, games…
Les Blues de Balfa
Les Blues de Balfa
1983 | 26mins
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Les Blues de Balfa
1983 | 26mins
A portrait of Southwestern Louisana\'s Balfa Brothers, ambassadors of traditional Cajun music to the world. Filmed in Louisiana between 1978 and 1981, the film focuses on the…
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…
Zydeco
Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
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Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
Nick Spitzer film on African American dance-hall music in French-speaking southwest Louisiana, with Dolon Carriere, Armand Ardoin, and Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin.
Anything I Catch
Anything I Catch
1990 | 30mins
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Anything I Catch
1990 | 30mins
This film examines the thrilling regional phenomenon of Cajuns who wade in murky bayou waters to catch huge catfish and turtles by reaching into hollow logs and stumps with their…
Why The Cowboy Sings
Why The Cowboy Sings
2002 | 58mins
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Why The Cowboy Sings
2002 | 58mins
The cowboy's job has always been dangerous, lonely, dusty, gory and low-paying. So why do cowboys make music, and why do they need to tell their story? Why the Cowboy Sings is a…
Hollow, The
Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
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Hollow, The
1975 | 1h 4mins
A rare 1975 film on a rural impoverished community in the Adirondack Mountains of New York. This remarkable film deals with stereotypes of improvised rural life, but unfolds into…
Blues Houseparty
Blues Houseparty
1989 | 57mins
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Blues Houseparty
1989 | 57mins
John Jackson, John Dee Holeman, Friz Holloway and others perform and reminisce about old-time houseparties in North Carolina and Virginia
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
1978 | 29mins
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Hamper McBee: Raw Mash
1978 | 29mins
A candid portrait of the Tennesse ballad singer, story-teller, and part-time moonshiner Hamper McBee.
Tradition Bearers
Tradition Bearers
1983 | 48mins
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Tradition Bearers
1983 | 48mins
A documentary about Finnish American history and folk art expressed through the lives and repertories of our folk artists living in the western Great Lakes Region.
Winter Harvest
Winter Harvest
1987 | 20mins
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Winter Harvest
1987 | 20mins
This film documents the activities of the Bear Creek Ice Company in northeastern Pennsylvania through interviews with former employees, who describe working conditions and the…
They Sing Of A Heaven
They Sing Of A Heaven
1972 | 20mins
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They Sing Of A Heaven
1972 | 20mins
This film documents sacred harp singing, a 200 year old tradition of religious singing which survives today in the rural South.
Good Life, The
Good Life, The
1997 | 58mins
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Good Life, The
1997 | 58mins
Mino-bimadiziwin: The Good Life is an engaging portrait of a community on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota where the peoples' lives revolve around the annual harvest of…
Turtle Stew
Turtle Stew
2014 | 56mins
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Turtle Stew
2014 | 56mins
Sheep Stew Of Dundas
Sheep Stew Of Dundas
2001 | 56mins
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Sheep Stew Of Dundas
2001 | 56mins
This journey in search of the story of Dundas Sheep Stew and its preparation is poignant as we learn how fragile the tradition is; and it is filled at every turn with good humor…

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