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One Big Union

Ralph Fasanella was born on Labor Day, 1914 in New York\'s Little Italy neighborhood to Joe the Iceman and Ginevre the Buttonhole Maker from Bari, Italy. His rough childhood among…

Hazel Dickens

From the coalfields of West Virginia to the factories of Baltimore, Hazel Dickens has lived the songs she sings. Interviews with Hazel and fellow musicians such as Alison Krauss,…

Sometimes I Run

Sometimes I Run

Sometimes I Run

1973 portrait of Stanley Maupin who cleans sidewalks at night for the Dallas Department of Sanitation. A film by Blaine Dunlap with music by Ken Watson.

Highly Exalted

The Highly Exalted documents the life of working cowboys on the last horsedrawn chuckwagon in modern America. Shot against the spectacular backdrop of northern Nevada, nine…

Smithy

Delbert Smith, 88, a hereditary blacksmith, illuminates life around the forge.

Parchman Penitentiary

Parchman Penitentiary

Parchman Penitentiary

William Ferris's 1969 movie of singing and preaching in the Mississippi State Penitentiary. Shot on B&W 8-mm film. Ferris added the recorded sound later, and it is not in…

Ranch Album

1987 | 1h 4mins

1987 | 1h 4mins

Ranch Album celebrates rough country ranching in Northern Arizona and shows real cowboy life.

Pioneer Axe

This is a short film made by Peter Vogt in 1965 about axe making in Oakland, Maine. It documents the process of creating fine axes in the Emerson Stevens shop -- the last axe…

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