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Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler
1998 | 40mins
Urban Gospel Ministry of Robert and Lily Butler
1998 | 40mins
Ms. Butler and her son, the Reverend Rober Butler, play at folk festivals and churches throughout New York City
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
Style Wars
1983 | 1h 9mins
New York's legendary Kings of Graffiti own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. Style Wars is regarded by many as the definitive document of the emerging hip hop culture, an…
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
From Shore to Shore
1993 | 57mins
A film on Irish immigrant musicians and their offspring, tracing the influences of family and community, ethnic identity, and American popular culture on the traditional music…
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Halsted Street USA
1995 | 56mins
Nowhere in America does a stretch of pavement slice through a more vibrant and diverse cross-section of humanity than Chicago's Halsted Street. Along its length one can view a…
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Mermaids, Frog Legs, and Fillets
1978 | 18mins
Long before the advent of hip-hop as a multi-million dollar industry, African Americans were rapping and rhyming in the street, in their neighborhoods, and on the fish market…
And This Is Free
1965 | 29mins
And This Is Free
1965 | 29mins
And This Is Free (1965) a personal vision of life around Chicago's Maxwell Street open air market shot by the photographer Mike Shea capturing the gritty urban landscape that…
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
Kings of Christmas
2005 | 11mins
The Kings of Christmas, introduces the men and women, the vast majority of whom are Italian-American, behind the biggest, brightest, and most over-the-top holiday decorated houses…
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco
1988 | 29mins
Sadobabies: Runaways in San Francisco
1988 | 29mins
A 1988 8mm video documentary about the street children of San Francisco. The video documents the expressive traditions of a group of young runaways who formed an alternative…
Sometimes I Run
1973 | 21mins
Sometimes I Run
1973 | 21mins
1973 portrait of Stanley Maupin who cleans sidewalks at night for the Dallas Department of Sanitation. A film by Blaine Dunlap with music by Ken Watson.
Closing Time
2006 | 33mins
Closing Time
2006 | 33mins
The New York real estate market forces the oldest store in Little Italy to shut down. The film is a portrait of a family, of the neighborhood that used to be and of the way the…
Music District
1996 | 56mins
Music District
1996 | 56mins
The Music District is a one-hour documentary profiling four African American traditional music groups practicing and performing for fans and congregants in the neighborhood…
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