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Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
Flight of the Dove
1989 | 29mins
A portrait of the Portuguese-American dairy-farming community in the Chino Valley of southern California. This is one of the first films ever to document the experiences and…
Fiddlers‘ Grove: A Celebration of Old Time
1994 | 56mins
Fiddlers‘ Grove: A Celebration of Old Time
1994 | 56mins
Every spring for more than 75 years musicians from all over the country gather in the foothills of North Carolina at Fiddler's Grove. Susan and Donna Campbell's hour-long…
Texas Style
1986 | 28mins
Texas Style
1986 | 28mins
"Texas Style" is an intimate look at rural Texas culture and the traditional fiddle music played on its back roads. With spirited rhythms and guitar accompaniment, Texas fiddling…
Language You Cry In
1998 | 52mins
Language You Cry In
1998 | 52mins
The Language You Cry In tells an amazing scholarly detective story reaching across hundreds of years and thousands of miles, from 18th century Sierra Leone to the Gullah people of…
Almeda Riddle
1985 | 28mins
Almeda Riddle
1985 | 28mins
This video tells how and where Arkansas ballad singer Almeda Riddle began her 10 year stint of singing old ballads all over the country. In an informal manner, folk musician Starr…
Painted Bride
1990 | 25mins
Painted Bride
1990 | 25mins
This 1990 video features the exquisite mehndi body painting tradition as it is practiced among Pakistani immigrants living in Queens, New York City. The film follows a mehndi…
Two Homes, One Heart
1992 | 26mins
Two Homes, One Heart
1992 | 26mins
Sikhs in Northern California celebrate special events with Giddha and Bhangra, songs and dances from their native land, Punjab, India.
Salamanders
1982 | 12mins
Salamanders
1982 | 12mins
An annual, weekend party at a college fraternity, which includes swallowing live salamanders develops into a competition among coeds that has sexual overtones. A George…
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Jazz Parades
1990 | 58mins
Alan Lomax's overview of the Jazz scene in New Orleans with interviews and performances by Majestic Band, the Preservation Hall Band (Willie Humphrey, James "Sing" Miller, Emanuel…
Every Island has its Own Songs
1988 | 27mins
Every Island has its Own Songs
1988 | 27mins
Nikitas Tsimouris (1924 - 2001) brought the complex music of the tsabouna, a type of Greek bagpipe, to Tarpon Springs. In 1991, Tsimouris became the first Floridian to receive a…
Rebuilding the Temple
1991 | 57mins
Rebuilding the Temple
1991 | 57mins
After fleeing their country and the Khmer Rouge, this one hour documentary examines the Cambodian refugees‘ efforts to adjust to Western life and the significant role played by…
Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
Men Who Dance the Giglio
1995 | 28mins
A documentary on the Brooklyn St. Paulinus Festival. This film explores ethnicity, cultural traditions, and religious devotion as the performers, participants, and community…
Moving Mountains
1989 | 58mins
Moving Mountains
1989 | 58mins
High in the mountains of Laos the Yiu Mien lived as they had for centuries until the Vietnam War forced them to leave their homeland and come to America....catapulted from one…
Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe
1992 | 46mins
Gathering Up Again: Fiesta in Santa Fe
1992 | 46mins
The three day pageant celebrates the reconquest of New Mexico in 1692 by the Spanish over the Pueblo Indians. Interviews and scenes of Fiesta preparation, ultimately, raised…
Old Believers
1981 | 29mins
Old Believers
1981 | 29mins
Hixon\'s film documents a real-life wedding in the Old Believer settlements of Marion County, Oregon, in the years 1979 and 1980. The film briefly touches on a wealth of…
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