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Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights follows the story of workers at the Smithfield Pork Processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, who fought for safe, fair working…
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
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…
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
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…
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was supposed to give sharecroppers a chance at land ownership. But for Black farmers in Tillery, North Carolina,…
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones tells the story of James H. Jones through the eyes of his daughter, filmmaker Anna Jones. A farmer who freed himself from sharecropping in the 1950s, Jones became a…
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. By 1994, there were more than 300,000. Displaced in the New South explores the cultural collision…
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
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…
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,…
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
Wild Caught
2006 | 1h 29mins
WILD CAUGHT chronicles the lives of fisherman carrying out small scale, sustainable commercial fishing in the town of Snead's Ferry, North Carolina, and their struggles to keep…
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
With These Hands
2009 | 1h 18mins
In March 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Company closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in operation. “With These…
Home Across the Water
1992 | 27mins
Home Across the Water
1992 | 27mins
A film about the efforts of Sea Islanders in South Carolina and Georgia to preserve their cultural identity and cope with the development of the islands as exclusive resorts.
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