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Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana presents the lives and work of two rag-rug makers who learned to weave on their family farm in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

Pearl Fisher

The freshwater pearl industry once flourished along Indiana's inland waterways. The Wabash, flowing south from Lafayette to join the Ohio at Mt. Vernon, bustled with the shallow…

People's Stuff

People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and motivations as they share both…

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…

Art of Ironworking

Art of Ironworking

Art of Ironworking

The culture and identity of contemporary ironworkers in southwestern Wisconsin.

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…

Halsted Street USA

Halsted Street USA

Halsted Street USA

Nowhere in America does a stretch of pavement slice through a more vibrant and diverse cross-section of humanity than Chicago's Halsted Street. Along its length one can view a…

Good Life, The

Mino-bimadiziwin: The Good Life is an engaging portrait of a community on the White Earth reservation in Minnesota where the peoples' lives revolve around the annual harvest of…

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