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Born for Hard Luck: Peg Leg Sam Jackson
A portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with brilliant harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buck dances, and an authentic live medicine-show performance filmed at a North Carolina county fair in 1972. As...
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Willa: An American Snow White
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Not all stepmothers are alike. In this inventive retelling of the Brothers Grimm classic "Snow White," the regal stepmother--a well-regarded but rather vain actress--finds her sweet 15-year-old stepdaughter quite benign at first. But when young...
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Soldier Jack
This story, set in the Appalachian Mountain area after World War II, is an adaptation of a European folk tale. The plot follows a war veteran named Jack who performs an act of kindness and in return receives two magical gifts: a sack that can...
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Bearskin (From The Brothers Grimm)
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This relatively obscure Brothers Grimm tale has been updated and Americanized in this 19-minute story of a deal with the devil gone right, for once. A Civil War veteran without family or prospects is propositioned by a man with a plan and a cloven...
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Mutzmag
Mutzmag is an folktale about a resourceful girl and her two selfish half-sisters. Mutzmag's mother dies early in the story, leaving her daughters with only a shack, a cabbage patch, and a broken pocketknife. The two stepsisters set out in...
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Jack & the Dentist's Daughter
This 40-minute retelling of The Master Thief is set in the 1930s with African American actors. In a small American town, a poor laborer's son named Jack falls in love with the dentist's daughter and wishes to marry her. When Jack asks her...
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Rapunzel, Rapunzel
This masterful rendition of the classic fairy tale suitably answers a child's ponderings of how, exactly, a prince can climb the cascading tresses of a damsel in distress to rescue her from a prison tower--without causing her a bad-hair day. Named...
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The Shakers
The Shakers are America's oldest and most successful experiment in communal living. A century ago, nearly 6000 Shaker brothers and sisters lived together in nineteen communities scattered from Maine to Kentucky. This film traces the growth, decline,...
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A Singing Stream
The story of a remarkable African American family from the rural South. With interviews and stories, and scenes from daily life, reunions, gospel concerts, and church services, the film traces the history of the Landis family of Granville County,...
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Being a Joines: A Life in the Brushy Mountains
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, North Carolina, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and religious narratives mirror changes that have swept away the...
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