Ethnic & Immigrant Cultures Films

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Eatala: A Life in Klezmer

Klezmer is Eastern European Jewish folk music. In other parts of the country, klezmer seemed to disappear and then was revived. But in Philadelphia, the Hoffman family never…

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

Elaine and Susan Sing Goodnight to Mishegas

"Elaine and Susan Say Goodnight to Mishegas" is a short playful documentary that tells the story of a song, explores how a significant local klezmer tradition is extended (and…

Dance Like A River

Dance Like A River

Dance Like A River

Dance Like a River is a documentary portrait of Odadaa!, a remarkable drumming and dance troupe from Ghana West Africa, in the early years of their residence in the United States.

And This Is Free

And This Is Free

And This Is Free

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

Kings of Christmas

Kings of Christmas

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…

Finah Misa Kule

Finah Misa Kule

Finah Misa Kule

In Search of Finah Misa Kule chronicles the quest of poet Kewulay Kamara to reconstitute an ancient epic handed down in his family.

Paj Ntaub

Hmong textile art, Paj ntaub or "flower cloth" consists of textile arts traditionally practiced by Hmong people. The Hmong, a nomadic group originating in China, migrated through…

Scandinavian Folk Music in Minnesota

Scandinavian Folk Music in Minnesota

Scandinavian Folk Music in Minnesota

Scandanavian Folk Music in Minnesota celebrates the musical and cultural legacy that grew out of the Scandinavian immigration to Minnesota- a legacy that is still being practiced…

Hello Columbus

Popular media personality Mal Sharpe guides viewers through an Italian-American Columbus Day celebration in San Francisco where we meet Joe Cervetto, a legend in the city for his…

Closing Time

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…

Mennonites of Manitoba

Mennonites of Manitoba

Mennonites of Manitoba

The Mennonites of Manitoba is the story of a modest, peaceful, religious people. A people who have fled from Holland to Poland, from Poland to Ukraine, and from Ukraine to…

Fiddlers of James Bay

Fiddlers of James Bay

Fiddlers of James Bay

This National Film Board of Canada documentary traces the history of the fiddle’s arrival in Canada 300 years ago via Scottish traders from Orkney Island.

Prairie Crosses

Prairie Crosses

Prairie Crosses

Prairie Crosses follows the traditional iron art form that crossed continents and oceans and survived famine and war to be reborn on the Great Plains of America and Canada.

Family Farm

A 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…

God Given

The exquisite metal repoussé artistry and life experiences of Norik Astvatsaturov, formerly of Baku, Azerbaijan, now an American citizen in Wahpeton, North Dakota, reflect in…

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