Agriculture Films

Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Old Timey Horse Farmers' Gathering

Filmmaker Stan Woodward stopped by a festival with people demonstrating horse and mule farming near the town of Blackville, South Carolina.

Virginia Peanut Story

Virginia Peanut Story

Virginia Peanut Story

The Virginia Peanut Story tells the rise and fall of the dominance of the Virginia/Carolina peanut industry. Aided by returning Union soldiers after the Civil War, railroads and…

Loggers And Their Lore

Loggers And Their Lore

Loggers And Their Lore

Half-hour folk art look at the poetry, songs, crafts and festivals of Northwest loggers. Aired 1987. Won PMN “Best of the West” award, Cultural Documentary, 1988. Funded by…

Ott Blair

Demonstration of and commentary on the mountain craft of building wooden farm sleds by Ott Blair, a native of Heaton, North Carolina. Discussion includes first selling sled and…

Singing Stream

The story of a gifted African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the…

Pearl Fisher

The freshwater pearl industry once flourished along Indiana's inland waterways. The Wabash, flowing south from Lafayette to join the Ohio at Mt. Vernon, bustled with the shallow…

This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This Is Our Slaughterhouse

This 22 minute documentary follows the ten workers of Broerman Poultry Processing, revealing their surprisingly close relationships, despite the gruesome nature of their job. The…

Everything Change Up Now

Everything Change Up Now

Everything Change Up Now

This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…

Everybody Promenade

Everybody Promenade

Everybody Promenade

The Farmall Promenade is an eight member, all male troupe of farmers who, as four male-'female' square dancing couples, perform across the Midwest. They have a passion for the…

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women

Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women

The cowgirls in this documentary are contemporary women aged six to sixty, who ride, rope and tough out the elements just as well as their more famous cowboy counterparts. The…

Cowhand‘s Song

Cowhand‘s Song

Cowhand‘s Song

This evocative documentary examines the plight of the ranchers of Nevada and California, who find their grazing areas increasingly threatened by many groups (even…

Amish: A People of Preservation

Amish: A People of Preservation

Amish: A People of Preservation

The Amish keep surprising their technology-programmed neighbors by keeping alive ways and beliefs that many modern Americans wish they could recapture. Mennonite historian John…

Being A Joines

John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, N. C., on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and…

Going, Going, Going

Going, Going, Going

Going, Going, Going

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

Finnish American Lives

A 1982 portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting the fragile community of memory connecting one with parents and…

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