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…

The Women on The Bus

The Women on the Bus by Anne Lewis January 19, 2017 at midnight, fifty-seven women met on a ranch outside Austin, Texas for a thirty-hour bus ride to the Women's…

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…

His Eye Is On The Sparrow

HIS EYE IS ON THE SPARROW 2003, 26:40 Ethel Caffie-Austin, West Virginia ’s first lady of gospel music, performs and teaches African American spirituals, hymns, and contemporary gospel songs. "Captures her in…

Shelter

SHELTER Remastered 2008, 2001, 56:40 In 1974, three women opened the first shelter for battered women in this country. A grassroots movement not only saved lives but changed the way we…

To Save the Land and People

TO SAVE THE LAND AND PEOPLE Remastered 2009, 1999, 56:40 The Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People used every means possible, from legal petitions to guns and dynamite, to…

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.…

Evelyn Williams

EVELYN WILLIAMS 1995, 26:40 Coal miner’s daughter and wife, mother of nine, domestic worker and community organizer whose awareness of class and race oppression led her to a lifetime of activism.…

Belinda

BELINDA 1993, 29:00 The AIDS advocate who spoke of the need for a collective response not crippled by homophobia, racism, fear, or ignorance. CINE Golden Eagle Award; Big Muddy Film Festival;…