Women Films

Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker

Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker

Kathleen Ware, Quiltmaker

From the placing of an order to the completion of the last stitch, the film details the entire process of creating a traditional Lone Star quilt. As the quilt grows, so does our…

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

Madison County Project

This video examines the tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing in Madison County, North Carolina and how both documentary work and the power of family and community have…

Making of Muna Muday

Making of Muna Muday

Making of Muna Muday

Portrait of a young Somalie woman who immigrated to Nashville Tenn when she was 10.

Me and Stella

Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who is best known for writing the folk standard…

Navajo Talking Pictures

Navajo Talking Pictures

Navajo Talking Pictures

Film student Arlene Bowman (Navajo) travels to the Reservation to document the traditional ways of her grandmother.

Old Believers

Hixon\'s film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The film briefly touches on a wealth of…

Other Side of Eden trailer

Other Side of Eden trailer

Other Side of Eden trailer

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…

Painted Bride

This 1990 video features the exquisite mehndi body painting tradition as it is practiced among Pakistani immigrants living in Queens, New York City. The film follows a mehndi…

Plenty of Good Women Dancers

Plenty of Good Women Dancers

Plenty of Good Women Dancers

“Plenty of Good Women Dancers” features exceptional Philadelphia African American women tap dancers whose active careers spanned the 1920s-1950s.

Prairie Quilts

Prairie Quilts explores the wonderful works of art, expressions of love, and legacies of comfort being made by contemporary quilters.

Quilting

This film explores the deep tradition of quilting in the U.S. with a focus on contemporary quilting. In doing so, the film considers both the tension between conservatism and…

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts in Women‘s Lives

Quilts was a ground breaking film used by folklorists, anthropologists and historians of art and womens history that presented the lives, art, work and philosophy of ordinary…

Recipes from Grandma's Kitchen: Volume 2

Recipes from Grandma's Kitchen: Volume 2

Recipes from Grandma's Kitchen: Volume 2

From the Russian steppe to the American prairies, the resourcefulness of the Germans from Russia, particularly in the preparation of food for large families, has become a rich…

Shakers

THE SHAKERS traces the growth, decline, and continuing survival of this remarkable religious sect through the memories and songs of Shaker sisters in New Hampshire and Maine.

Singing Stream

The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…

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