Work Films

Miles of Smiles

Miles of Smiles

Miles of Smiles

Miles of Smiles tells the untold story of the Pullman porters who organized America’s first Black trade union – the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. But this inspiring film…

Union Time

2018 | 1h 9mins

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…

I Always do My Collars First

I Always do My Collars First

I Always do My Collars First

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,…

Becoming Geppetto

Becoming Geppetto

2022 | 1h 10mins

Becoming Geppetto

2022 | 1h 10mins

Becoming Geppetto gives us an intimate and serenely meditative front-row seat to the Petros's guitar making process, as well as a look into their family life and history.

Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana

Weaving Indiana presents the lives and work of two rag-rug makers who learned to weave on their family farm in Bartholomew County, Indiana.

Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres

Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres

Winter Crossing at L'lsle-Aux-Coudres

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…

Boom and Bust

Boom and Bust is a meditation on economic cycles and the American Dream. This remarkable film tells the story of industrial expansion and decline along the Erie Canal, and…

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Jesse Marsolais, Letter Carver Letterpress Printer

Short film about Jesse Marsolais who works in old ways – traditional methods of letterpress printing and letter carving in stone and wood – to meet customers’ needs one letter at…

Company Town

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

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…

Clotheslines

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…

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…

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…

High Steel

This short documentary offers a dizzying view of the Mohawk Indians of Kahnawake who work in Manhattan erecting the steel frames of skyscrapers.

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