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Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering
2006 | 18mins
Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
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.
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…
Raise the Dead
1998 | 59mins
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…
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…
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…
Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
Morgan Sexton
1991 | 28mins
Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage…
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…
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…
Everybody Promenade
2007 | 27mins
Everybody Promenade
2007 | 27mins
The Farmall Promenade is an eight member, all male troupe of farmers who, as four male-'female' square dancing couples, perform across the Midwest. They have a passion for the…
Rattlesnakes
1992 | 24mins
Rattlesnakes
1992 | 24mins
The annual rattlesnake bagging contest at this tiny Appalachian festival includes a parade, a fair, firefighters’ contests, and a greased pig chase. A George Hornbein/Ken Thigpen…
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…
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.
Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women
1985 | 29mins
Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women
1985 | 29mins
The cowgirls in this documentary are contemporary women aged six to sixty, who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous cowboy counterparts. The…
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