Religion Films (Appalachia)

Company Town
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
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Company Town
1983 | 25mins
The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston corpration in 1963.
Raise the Dead
Raise the Dead
1998 | 59mins
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Raise the Dead
1998 | 59mins
James Ruterbeck's film about H. Richard Hall, Mike Ferree, and Eula Shelton, Pentecostal preachers and faith healers in the tradition of William Branham. Their ministry flourished…
Appalachian Journey
Appalachian Journey
1991 | 58mins
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Appalachian Journey
1991 | 58mins
Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made…
Sweet Is the Day
Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
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Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
The story of the Woottens of Sand Mountain, Alabama, one of the key singing families who have helped Sacred Harp music survive and flourish for more than 150 years. The video…
Being A Joines
Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
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Being A Joines
1981 | 55mins
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…
Powerhouse for God
Powerhouse for God
1989 | 57mins
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Powerhouse for God
1989 | 57mins
Powerhouse for God is a portrait of an old-fashioned Baptist preacher John Sherfy, his family, and their church in Virginia's northern Blue Ridge Mountains. Audiences who were…
His Eye is on the Sparrow
His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
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His Eye is on the Sparrow
1999 | 28mins
Ethel Caffie-Austin, daughter of the coalfields, is West Virginia\'s "First Lady of Gospel Music." This program features Ethel performing a range of spirituals, hymns and…
People Who Take Up Serpents
People Who Take Up Serpents
1974 | 36mins
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People Who Take Up Serpents
1974 | 36mins
Members of a branch of the Holiness churches who base their religious beliefs and practices on Bible verses, especially Mark 16:18. The members handle serpents, hold fire to their…
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout
1987 | 28mins
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Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout
1987 | 28mins
Well Known Stranger: Howard Finster‘s Workout takes an intimate look at artist Howard Finster as he conducts a workshop or a "workout" as he calls it, at Mountain Lake, Virginia.…
They Shall Take Up Serpents
They Shall Take Up Serpents
1973 | 18mins
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They Shall Take Up Serpents
1973 | 18mins
For the past eighty years, believers living in the Appalachian hills of the southeastern US have incorporated handling serpents and drinking strychnine (a “salvation cocktail”)…
In Jesus‘ Name
In Jesus‘ Name
1991 | 47mins
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In Jesus‘ Name
1991 | 47mins
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. Mark 16: 18
High Lonesome Sound
High Lonesome Sound
1963 | 30mins
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High Lonesome Sound
1963 | 30mins
John Cohn's remarkable documentary explores the lives of Appalachian mountain people in a depressed area of Kentucky through spiritual and folk music. Presents songs by revivalist…
While The Ages Roll On
While The Ages Roll On
1990 | 29mins
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While The Ages Roll On
1990 | 29mins
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…
Where Do They All Go?
Where Do They All Go?
2013 | 42mins
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Where Do They All Go?
2013 | 42mins
As a teenager, growing up in the mountains of rural northern Virginia, Jerry Payne asked "Animals are dying all the time. Where do they all go?"

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