Featured Films
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To Hear Your Banjo Play1946 | 16mins
To Hear Your Banjo Play1946 | 16minsThe story of Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States. Written by Alan Lomax and directed by Irving Lerner, this short feature includes… -
Where Do They All Go?2013 | 42minsWhere Do They All Go?2013 | 42minsAs 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?" -
LaVaughn Robinson2003 | 29minsLaVaughn Robinson2003 | 29minsLaVaughn Robinson, a National Heritage Fellowship award winner, was a tap-dance virtuoso on the big-band circuit in the 1940s and ’50s who became a master teacher and a major… -
New Life2000 | 55minsNew Life2000 | 55minsA.R. Cole began building a barn in 1927 and asked his wife if it should be for tobacco or pottery. She did not have a preference and realized it was to be for pottery when the… -
Family Across the Sea1990 | 57minsFamily Across the Sea1990 | 57minsFamily Across the Sea shows how scholars have uncovered the remarkable connections between the Gullah people of South Carolina and the people of Sierra Leone.