Featured Films
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Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison1966 | 29mins
Afro-American Work Songs in a Texas Prison1966 | 29minsPete and Toshi Seeger, their son Daniel, and folklorist Bruce Jackson visited a Texas prison in Huntsville in March of 1966 and produced this rare document of of work songs by… -
Lige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker1985 | 29minsLige: Portrait of a Rawhide Worker1985 | 29minsHenry Elijah "Lige" Langston was born in 1908 in the Great Basin outback on a homestead. He worked his entire life as a wrangler and rawhide braider in the region known as the… -
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker1981 | 48minsFundi: The Story of Ella Baker1981 | 48minsThis film is available in a 63-minute version here: vimeo.com/ondemand/fundiElla Baker, a friend and advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr., played an instrumental role in shaping the…
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Clotheslines1981 | 32minsClotheslines1981 | 32minsWith verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and… -
Cajun Country1991 | 56minsCajun Country1991 | 56minsAlan 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…