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Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism will defeat their relationship.
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Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism will defeat their relationship.
A home-beach video in Apollachia of Rhodes
An exploration of the Great Smoky Mountains in the southeastern US. Features a look at the flora and fauna of the region and includes profiles of the rangers who patrol its vast wilderness.
Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound – TAMIS) with score written
t has been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson sat on Tom Fletcher's front porch in Inez, Ky., and declared "War on Poverty," 49 years since the Appalachian Regional Commission was formed, and 46 years since Sen.
Examines the meager holiday season for poor families in the mountains of Kentucky. Reporter, Charles Kuralt, talks with the people about the disappointments their children will have on Christmas Day. The children sing ca
This documentary explores the lives of three adult sisters living in a remote holler in southern West Virginia. Sharon, a school teacher, has returned home after living elsewhere, affording her a world view not shared by
Appalachian filmmakers join together to produce three horrifying, suspenseful, and strange tales. In "Pretty Girl", a young woman escapes a maniac kidnapper by fleeing into the Appalachian wilderness. Aided by a group of
Exploring the Appalachian region and it's beauty.
National Educational Television" Wednesday, November 13, 1968 on NET's Brand New NET Journal Week on 1960 RCA TV. The land is rich with coal, yet its residents are denied adequate food, housing, or medical care. This, t
In Defense of Plants: Appalachia
Three Stories From Southern Appalachia is an autoethnographic experimental documentary triptych that explores Appalachian folklore, history and myth-making.
This documentary tells the story of pack horse librarians - women hired by the Franklin Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression to travel on horseback to deliver library books and magaz
"Sweet Appalachia: The Story of DelFest" is a feature-length documentary that explores the celebrated music festival and its transformative impact on a rural city in Appalachia. Join Grammy Award Winning Bluegrass musici
Three women of Cherokee, Scots-Irish and African-American heritage are share their momiries of Appalachian history and experience.
“No Such Right” is a snapshot of a region in crisis. In the aftermath of the stunning Dobbs v Jackson decision, doctors, lawyers, activists, and young people across Appalachia had to come to terms with what the future of
The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
The Last Dragons is an intimate glimpse at North America's Eastern Hellbender, an ancient salamander that lives as much in myth as in reality.... and in many waters, myths are all that remain of these sentinel stream-dw
Macie Alford uncovers newspaper reports from 1880 about a mysterious fire that killed four Black children in the isolated Appalachian mountain community of Burke's Garden, Virginia. Macie is surprised the deaths are not
A filmed version of Aaron Copland's most famous ballet, with its original star, who also choreographed.