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Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
Zydeco
1986 | 55mins
Nick Spitzer film on African American dance-hall music in French-speaking southwest Louisiana, with Dolon Carriere, Armand Ardoin, and Alphonse “Bois Sec” Ardoin.
Woodsmen and River Drivers
1989 | 28mins
Woodsmen and River Drivers
1989 | 28mins
Men and women who worked for the Machias Lumber Company before 1930 share their recollections of the logging industry in Maine when they cut trees by hand, hauled logs to the…
Winter Harvest
1987 | 20mins
Winter Harvest
1987 | 20mins
This film documents the activities of the Bear Creek Ice Company in northeastern Pennsylvania through interviews with former employees, who describe working conditions and the…
Why The Cowboy Sings
2002 | 58mins
Why The Cowboy Sings
2002 | 58mins
The cowboy's job has always been dangerous, lonely, dusty, gory and low-paying. So why do cowboys make music, and why do they need to tell their story? Why the Cowboy Sings is a…
Why Quilts Matter: 05: Gee‘s Bend: The Most Famous Quilts in America
2011 | 27mins
Why Quilts Matter: 05: Gee‘s Bend: The Most Famous Quilts in America
2011 | 27mins
In 2002 the art world was rocked to its foundations by a group of unusual, abstract quilts made by African American women from an obscure hamlet in southern Alabama. People lined…
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…
Where Do They All Go?
2013 | 42mins
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?"
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…
Turtle Stew
2014 | 56mins
Turtle Stew
2014 | 56mins
Tradition Bearers
1983 | 48mins
Tradition Bearers
1983 | 48mins
A documentary about Finnish American history and folk art expressed through the lives and repertories of our folk artists living in the western Great Lakes Region.
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.
Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
Tommie Bass
1993 | 49mins
At the time of his death in 1996, "Tommie" Bass, was probably the most well-known herbalist in the United States. The subject of scholarly and popular books, television features,…
Thoughts on Fox Hunting
1975 | 30mins
Thoughts on Fox Hunting
1975 | 30mins
Features the legendary huntsman Melvin Poe and the hounds of the Orange County Hunt near The Plains, Virginia.
Thoughts on Beagling
1997 | 32mins
Thoughts on Beagling
1997 | 32mins
This video documents the breeding, training and hunting of the beagle, the world's most popular hound, by three passionate beaglers: Clayton Bright, a sculptor of sporting art…
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