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Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
Stranger With a Camera
2000 | 1h
During the 1960s, filmmakers from around the world came to Appalachia to document the dire conditions of the region’s poorest residents. Media focused the nation’s attention on…
Unbroken Circle
1985 | 57mins
Unbroken Circle
1985 | 57mins
The film traces the development of traditional country music in Vermont from unaccompanied ballads through Franco- and Anglo-American fiddling to radio cowboy bands and…
In the Moment
2022 | 1h
In the Moment
2022 | 1h
In the Moment introduces viewers to payadores, emboladores, decimistas, bertsolari poets, extempo and freestyle rap artists from Argentina, Canary Islands, Brazil, Portugal,…
Beauty Knows No Pain
1973 | 25mins
Beauty Knows No Pain
1973 | 25mins
In 1940, the Kilgore College Rangerettes became the first dancing drill team in the nation. They have been performing at half-time shows during college football games ever since.…
Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane
1972 | 45mins
Dedans Le Sud de la Louisiane
1972 | 45mins
A travelogue study of Cajun and Creole music and culture, circa 1972: a mythical land, its people, their ancient French language and most of all their wonderful musical…
Louisiana Blues
1992 | 55mins
Louisiana Blues
1992 | 55mins
A look at Cajun and Zydeco music that was started in Louisiana. Many artists are featured in the film.
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…
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
Upperville Show
1970 | 10mins
The Upperville Colt & Horse Show is the oldest horse show in America. Established in 1853 by Colonel Richard Henry Dulany, who also founded the Piedmont Fox Hounds, the show…
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
Company Town
1983 | 25mins
The former coal town of Widen, West Virginia. Once a model of paternalistic domination, Widen had been sold to the Pittston corpration in 1963.
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
Virginia Peanut Story
2019 | 58mins
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…
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Cajun Country
1991 | 56mins
Alan Lomax's wonderful documentary about the bayous of Louisiana which have combined French, German, West Indian, native American and hillbilly ingredients into a unique cultural…
Albert Collins
1989 | 56mins
Albert Collins
1989 | 56mins
Portrait of Albert "Hap" Collins of South Blue Hill, Maine. Hap Collins was a poet, painter, fiddler, lobster fisherman, storyteller, and craftsman.
Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
Free Show Tonite
1983 | 58mins
Presents a nostalgic tribute to the American medicine shows of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shows a re-creation of a typical medicine show by veteran performers,…
Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women
1985 | 29mins
Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women
1985 | 29mins
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…
Ballad of Frankie Silver
1996 | 47mins
Ballad of Frankie Silver
1996 | 47mins
In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. Tom Davenport's film explores the case through the singing and…
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