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Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres
1960 | 29mins
Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres
1960 | 29mins
On an island the road ends where it begins, at the wharf. The wharf is the link to the rest of the world, until winter cuts it off. But the islanders know the winter sea and its…
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Looking for Trouble
31mins
Violence at Cajun dances, bars, and night clubs increased exponentially after the Civil War. Locals coped with economic collapse and the horrors of war by formulating an honor…
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
Baghdad Twist
2007 | 33mins
A visual memoir of one family's life in Iraq before escaping to a new home in Canada in the fall of 1970. Featuring a never-before-seen collection of archival images, home movies,…
Gypsies Sing Long Ballads
1982 | 28mins
Gypsies Sing Long Ballads
1982 | 28mins
Scotland’s Gypsies have lived outside mainstream society for more than 500 years. Although some of the “Travelling People” still live by the sides of roads, most live today in…
People's Stuff
1992 | 23mins
People's Stuff
1992 | 23mins
People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and motivations as they share both…
Texas Tavola
2007 | 34mins
Texas Tavola
2007 | 34mins
The Tavola di San Giuseppe, an important religious event at which a single Sicilian-American family hosts almost 1,000 guests in honor of St. Joseph.
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
Welcome to Spivey‘s Corner
1978 | 17mins
In 1979 Keir Cline shot footage at the Tenth Annual National Hollerin’ Contest in Spivey’s Corner, a small crossroads community in southeastern North Carolina. The festival had…
We Are Arabbers
2004 | 1h 21mins
We Are Arabbers
2004 | 1h 21mins
We Are Arabbers follows the horse-and-wagon produce vendors along the streets of Baltimore, Maryland as they struggle to make a living and maintain their unique culture.
Dance All Night - The Highwoods Stringband Story
2018 | 1h 18mins
Dance All Night - The Highwoods Stringband Story
2018 | 1h 18mins
In the 1970s, the Highwoods Stringband’s unique blend of musical brilliance, exuberance, sparkling wit, and eclectic repertoire introduced tens of thousands of delighted listeners…
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
Everything Change Up Now
1974 | 40mins
This documentary explores what has happened to lifestyles of South Carolina sea slanders since slavery, through interviews with Gullah basket weavers, net makers, fishermen,…
Accordions Rising
2015 | 1h 13mins
Accordions Rising
2015 | 1h 13mins
Accordions Rising offers entertaining, conversation-style interviews, anecdotal commentary, and both formal and informal music performances by celebrated accordionists, composers,…
Home Movie
1975 | 19mins
Home Movie
1975 | 19mins
This 1974 documentary produced in the era before video cameras chronicles the tradition of home movies in American family folklore. It explores the common themes in family films,…
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…
Frogmore Stew
2014 | 5mins
Frogmore Stew
2014 | 5mins
Frogmore Stew is considered a classic Low Country South Carolina dish. This dish is also know as Low-Country boil and Beaufort Stew. The dish gets its name from a place that has…
La Décima Borinqueña
2005 | 23mins
La Décima Borinqueña
2005 | 23mins
Portrayal of four renowned Puerto Rican décima troubadours as they come together to revive the Roundtable tradition and to celebrate the four hundredth anniversary of Don Quixote…
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