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Losing Ground
1988 | 56mins
Losing Ground
1988 | 56mins
Losing Ground is a psychological portrait of an Iowa family facing the loss of a family farm during the Farm Crisis of the 1980s. The Farm Crisis was a difficult period when…
River, Rails or Road
2014 | 21mins
River, Rails or Road
2014 | 21mins
“River, Rails or Road” reflects singer-songwriter Tom Breiding’s admiration for his home state of West Virginia, his respect for the triumphs, hardships and dedication of the…
Great Grandfather's Drum
2011 | 57mins
Great Grandfather's Drum
2011 | 57mins
Great Grandfather’s Drum celebrates Japanese-American culture and history in Hawai’i, told through an intimate and joyful portrait of the Maui Taiko drum ensemble, descendants of…
W. C. Taylor High School: A Legacy
2021 | 21mins
W. C. Taylor High School: A Legacy
2021 | 21mins
W.C. Taylor High School in Warrenton, Virginia was the first high school in Fauquier County to serve African American students during segregation. Principal Hazzard and Vice…
Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on…
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007 | 1h 32mins
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007 | 1h 32mins
Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of song as a force for social change. With his deeply-held beliefs, Seeger…
Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights follows the story of workers at the Smithfield Pork Processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, who fought for safe, fair working…
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
2003 | 1h 10mins
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
2003 | 1h 10mins
This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went missing from their British Columbia village in 1929. The fate…
Amen! Music of the Black Church
2020 | 57mins
Amen! Music of the Black Church
2020 | 57mins
"Amen!" explores the rich traditions, historical significance, and meaning of Black church music in a concert film, recorded before a live audience at the Second Baptist Church in…
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
A visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies,…
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…
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.
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
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…
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…
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was supposed to give sharecroppers a chance at land ownership. But for Black farmers in Tillery, North Carolina,…
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