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This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This 22 minute documentary follows the ten workers of Broerman Poultry Processing, revealing their surprisingly close relationships, despite the gruesome nature of their job. The…

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

A 1982 portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting the fragile community of memory connecting one with parents and…

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

Tough, Pretty, or Smart

The portrayal of rural Indiana group, The Patoka Valley Boys, a six-person string band comprising one of America's finest old-time and bluegrass musical groups.

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Popovich Brothers of South Chicago

Filmmaker Jill Godmilow (with folklorists Ethel Raim and Marty Koenig) made this film in 1977 when there was a community of 1100 Serbian-Americans families in South Chicago. They…

Mennonites of Manitoba

Mennonites of Manitoba

Mennonites of Manitoba

The Mennonites of Manitoba is the story of a modest, peaceful, religious people. A people who have fled from Holland to Poland, from Poland to Ukraine, and from Ukraine to…

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…

Prairie Quilts

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

Germans from Russia

Germans from Russia

Germans from Russia

The Germans from Russia is the story of the Germans from Russia - agricultural pioneers on several continents whose quest for land and peace shaped them into a distinctive and…

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