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Firehouse Women
Firehouse Women
1998 | 28mins
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Firehouse Women
1998 | 28mins
A half-hour 1998 film by Ellen Walter about a North Carolina firehouse that’s been converted into a restaurant and the women who sing gospel music there.
Me and Stella
Me and Stella
1976
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Me and Stella
1976
Geri Ashur’s Me & Stella  traces the life of blues musician, folk singer, and composer Elizabeth Cotten—and her guitar, Stella—who is best known for writing the folk standard…
I Always do My Collars First
I Always do My Collars First
2006 | 25mins
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I Always do My Collars First
2006 | 25mins
Following four dynamic Cajun women in Southwestern Louisiana as they go about their daily lives while telling and showing us what ironing means to them. Ironing is a nurturing,…
Dancing with My Father
Dancing with My Father
2002 | 54mins
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Dancing with My Father
2002 | 54mins
An intimate view of marriage, divorce, and how adult love is shaped by what a child learns at home.  Rock combines self-analysis and dynastic saga as she traces her family demons…
Weaving Indiana
Weaving Indiana
2023 | 25mins
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Weaving Indiana
2023 | 25mins
Weaving Indiana presents the lives and work of two rag-rug makers who learned to weave on their family farm in Bartholomew County, Indiana.
Beauty Knows No Pain
Beauty Knows No Pain
1973 | 25mins
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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.…
Why Quilts Matter 09: Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality
Why Quilts Matter 09: Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality
2011 | 27mins
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Why Quilts Matter 09: Quilt Scholarship: Romance and Reality
2011 | 27mins
Quilt scholarship has grown into a serious discipline generating material of interest—not just to the quilt world — but to a dozen other important disciplines from material…
Why Quilts Matter 08: Quilt Nation – 20,000,000 and Counting!
Why Quilts Matter 08: Quilt Nation – 20,000,000 and Counting!
2011 | 28mins
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Why Quilts Matter 08: Quilt Nation – 20,000,000 and Counting!
2011 | 28mins
“Quilt making,” as one quilt maker says, “is the greatest mass movement nobody ever heard of.” The population of the American quilt world outnumbers those of many small countries,…
Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women
Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women
2011 | 28mins
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Why Quilts Matter: 07: Empowering Women
2011 | 28mins
Unique among objects, quilts are both lowly “women’s work” and great art. They are something made from nothing; they are both nurturing and inspiring. They can communicate both…
Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
2011 | 28mins
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Why Quilts Matter: 06: How Quilts have been Viewed and Collected
2011 | 28mins
Part 6 traces institutional attitudes toward quilts as objects, rationales for their selection, and the public response to their exhibition.
Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive
Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive
2011 | 27mins
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Why Quilts Matter: 02: Bringing History Alive
2011 | 27mins
The quilt’s unique ability to preserve, not only our own family histories, but the history of America
Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?
Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?
2011 | 27mins
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Why Quilts Matter: 04: What is Art?
2011 | 27mins
The quilt is the perfect test case for a dozen theories about what makes art. The art vs. craft debate
Clotheslines
Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
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Clotheslines
1981 | 32mins
With verve and humor, this film shows the love/hate relationship that women have with the task of cleaning the family's clothes. As we see the clothes flapping in the wind and…
Singing Stream
Singing Stream
1986 | 57mins
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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…
Joy Unspeakable
Joy Unspeakable
1981 | 59mins
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Joy Unspeakable
1981 | 59mins
Joy Unspeakable examines the question, what does it mean to be Pentecostal, through the documentation of three types of Oneness Pentecostal services in Southern Indiana: a…

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