Featured Films
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Tommie Bass1993 | 49mins
Tommie Bass1993 | 49minsAt the time of his death in 1996, "Tommie" Bass, was probably the most well-known herbalist in the United States. The subject of scholarly and popular books, television features,… -
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… -
Our Lives in Our Hands1986 | 49minsOur Lives in Our Hands1986 | 49minsThis 1986 film examines the traditional Native American craft of split ash basketmaking as a means of economic and cultural survival for Aroostook Micmac Indians of northern… -
I‘ll Keep On Singing2010 | 55minsI‘ll Keep On Singing2010 | 55minsA comprehensive look ca. 2007 at southern gospel convention singing, an amateur, Christian, music-making and educational tradition that developed in rural America following the… -
End of an Old Song1969 | 30minsEnd of an Old Song1969 | 30minsFilmed in the mountains of North Carolina, this acclaimed documentary revisits the region where English folklorist Cecil Sharp collected British ballads in the early 1900s. The…