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While The Ages Roll On
1990 | 29mins
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…
Watermen
1968 | 1h 3mins
Watermen
1968 | 1h 3mins
In 1965 New York filmmaker Holly Fisher focused her camera on the annual skipjack race on the Chesapeake Bay, and on skipjack captain Art Daniels. Over the next three years, she…
Tough, Pretty, or Smart
1981 | 29mins
Tough, Pretty, or Smart
1981 | 29mins
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.
This Is Our Slaughterhouse
2000 | 22mins
This Is Our Slaughterhouse
2000 | 22mins
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…
This Is My Home Now
2015 | 26mins
This Is My Home Now
2015 | 26mins
This is My Home Now explores the lives of four youths from three Montagnard immigrant families who have fled their homelands in Southeast Asia to forge a new future in North…
Sweet Is the Day
2001 | 59mins
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…
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
Sonny Ford, Delta Artist
1969 | 41mins
B/w 16mm documentary film based on fieldwork Ferris conducted with Leland, Mississippi, bluesman and folk artist James "Son" Thomas. Included is footage of Thomas performing at…
Singing Stream Reunion
2016 | 57mins
Singing Stream Reunion
2016 | 57mins
This 57 minute documentary continues the story of the Landis family of Creedmoor, NC into the 21 Century. The first film " A Singing Stream: A Black Family Chronicle" was…
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…
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco
1988 | 29mins
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco
1988 | 29mins
A 1988 8mm video documentary about the street children of San Francisco. The video documents the expressive traditions of a group of young runaways who formed an alternative…
Quilting
1998 | 26mins
Quilting
1998 | 26mins
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
1999 | 28mins
Prairie Quilts
1999 | 28mins
Prairie Quilts explores the wonderful works of art, expressions of love, and legacies of comfort being made by contemporary quilters.
Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
Post Industrial Fiddle
1982 | 23mins
This deceptively simple but profound film explores the importance of music-making in the life of Jerry Morrell, a pulp mill worker in rural Maine. His “Down East” fiddling style…
Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
1978 | 59mins
Popovich Brothers of South Chicago
1978 | 59mins
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…
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…
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