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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…
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Pete Seeger: The Power of Song
2007
Pete Seeger helped introduce America to its own musical heritage, devoting his life to using the power of song as a force for social change. With his deeply-held beliefs, Seeger…
Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time
2018 | 1h 9mins
Union Time: Fighting for Workers’ Rights follows the story of workers at the Smithfield Pork Processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, who fought for safe, fair working…
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
2003 | 1h 10mins
Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole
2003 | 1h 10mins
This feature-length documentary traces the journey of the Haisla people to reclaim the G'psgolox totem pole that went missing from their British Columbia village in 1929. The fate…
Amen! Music of the Black Church
2020 | 57mins
Amen! Music of the Black Church
2020 | 57mins
"Amen!" explores the rich traditions, historical significance, and meaning of Black church music in a concert film, recorded before a live audience at the Second Baptist Church in…
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row
1979 | 59mins
Death Row at Ellis is no worse-- and it is probably somewhat better--than most other Death Rows in America. It is the only death Row in which a documentary film could have been…
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.
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
Other Side of Eden
2018 | 59mins
On a hot July night in 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia slipped into his landowner’s home “Edenhurst,” beat him unconscious with a piece of stove wood, and dragged…
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
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…
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
We Shall Not Be Moved
2007 | 46mins
During the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was supposed to give sharecroppers a chance at land ownership. But for Black farmers in Tillery, North Carolina,…
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
2015 | 57mins
Chairman Jones tells the story of the director's father, James H. Jones, a farmer who emerges as a trailblazer during the 1969 school desegregation crisis sparked when Northampton…
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,…
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
Displaced in the New South
1996 | 56mins
In 1980, there were a few thousand Asian and Latino immigrants in Georgia. By 1994, there were more than 300,000. Displaced in the New South explores the cultural collision…
Cowhand‘s Song
1981 | 30mins
Cowhand‘s Song
1981 | 30mins
This evocative documentary examines the plight of the ranchers of Nevada and California, who find their grazing areas increasingly threatened by many groups (even…
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
Other Side of Eden trailer
2018 | 1mins
On a hot July night in 1932 a black tenant farmer in Northern Virginia slipped into his landowner’s home “Edenhurst,” beat him unconscious with a piece of stove wood, and dragged…
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