On Our Own Land
ON OUR OWN LAND 1989, 28:30 The citizens' movement to stop strip mining without the landowner's consent which resulted in an amendment to the Kentucky constitution. "Illustrates a conflict that won’t…
Minnie Black’s Gourd Band
MINNIE BLACK'S GOURD BAND 1988, 29:00 Minnie Black is ninety years old but she's still making music and art out of the gourds she grows in her backyard garden in East…
Lily May Ledford
LILY MAY LEDFORD 1988, 29:00 Lily May Ledford--the original "banjo-pickin' girl"--led the Coon Creek Girls, the first all-woman stringband on radio. The program includes footage of Lily May performing and interviews…
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…
Mud Creek Clinic
MUD CREEK CLINIC 28:30, 1987 Portrait of Eula Hall and a primary health clinic organized by a welfare rights organization in eastern Kentucky. "Eminently lucid and captivating....A sobering and compelling rendition…
Mine War on Blackberry Creek
MINE WAR ON BLACKBERRY CREEK 1986, 29:00 A report from the long and bitter United Mine Workers of America strike against the A.T. Massey Coal Company, a subsidiary of a multinational…
Peace Stories
PEACE STORIES 1985, 29:00 Experiences of three veterans from the south who decided that war is wrong -- William Farmer, a World War I veteran; Connie Bowling who worked on the…
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,…
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
Mabel Parker Hardison Smith
MABEL PARKER HARDISON SMITH 1985, 28:30 African-American teacher in the coalfields for 35 years and gospel musician. "Smith articulately recollects the life of a black miner’s family while archival and personal…