A Strike and an Uprising! (in Texas)

  The film is a documentary based in the telling of two events: the San Antonio pecan shellers’ strike of 1938 and the Jobs with Justice march led by Nacogdoches…

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot

Anne Braden: Southern Patriot in partnership with Mimi Pickering and produced with Appalshop is finished. DVD's are available from Appalshop and California Newsreel. Clips screened at the historic 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit are included…

Texas Majority Minority

TEXAS MAJORITY MINORITY 2004, 10:40 About the struggle to register Latino and African American voters in Texas and the disenfranchisement of thousands of voters which created a system of political apartheid. Includes…

Rough Side of the Mountain

ROUGH SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN 1999, 56:40 Community organizing and the "steel ceiling" encountered by two company towns -- Trammel and Ivanhoe, Virginia -- as they struggle to develop new economies.…

Read more about the article Hands On: A Year in an Eastern Kentucky Classroom
Still from Hands On: A year in an Easter Kentucky Classroom

Hands On: A Year in an Eastern Kentucky Classroom

HANDS ON: A YEAR IN AN EASTERN KENTUCKY CLASSROOM 1992, 28:00 Examines the potential of a student-centered, democratically run learning environment based on Foxfire methods in an economically disadvantaged rural second…

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still from documentary by Anne Lewis.

Hard Times in the Country: The Schools

HARD TIMES IN THE COUNTRY: THE SCHOOLS 1988, 29:00 The impact of the War on Poverty on school systems in eastern Kentucky and describes how the solutions that were implemented --…

So Was Einstein: A Look at Dyslexic Children

SO WAS EINSTEIN: A LOOK AT DYSLEXIC CHILDREN 1988, 29:00 Focuses on four students and their families and describes the guilt, frustration, and misunderstanding that often come with having dyslexia, and…

I’m What This is All About

I'M WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT 1985, 29:00 with Mimi Pickering Parents in rural Lincoln County are shown fighting for equitable treatment of their children, for the preservation of community schools,…