Featured Films
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Family Farm1973 | 6mins
Family Farm1973 | 6minsA day on the farm with the David and Ada Schwartz family in the Indiana Amish community. This 1968 film shows the family making apple butter. David Schwartz talks anecdotally… -
With These Hands2009 | 1h 18minsWith These Hands2009 | 1h 18minsIn March 2007, unable to compete with cheaper offshore production, Hooker Furniture Company closed its plant in Martinsville, Virginia, after 83 years in operation. “With These… -
Learned it in Back Days and Kept It1981 | 28minsLearned it in Back Days and Kept It1981 | 28minsPortrait of Lucreaty Clark (1903 - 1986), an African American oak basket maker from rural Florida. Clark embraced a wide repertoire of traditional African American songs, games… -
Gandy Dancers1994 | 30minsGandy Dancers1994 | 30minsMusical traditions and recollections of eight retired African-American railroad track laborers whose occupational folk songs were once heard on railroads that crisscross the South. -
High Steel1965 | 14minsHigh Steel1965 | 14minsThis short documentary offers a dizzying view of the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake who work in Manhattan erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers.