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…
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;…
Chemical Valley on vimeo The chemical spill and crisis in the Kanawha Valley has many echoes of events in the valley after Bhopal in the 1980s. If you want to view…
ROVING PICKETS 1991, 28:00 Coal miners, coal operators and other participants recall the sometimes violent battle over jobs, health care, and a voice in the political system that focused national attention…
MORGAN SEXTON: BANJO PLAYER FROM BULL CREEK 1991, 29:00 Eastern Kentucky's Morgan Sexton cut his first banjo out of the bottom of a lard bucket, and some seventy years later won…
FAST FOOD WOMEN 1992, 29:00An inside look at the lives of women who fry chicken, make pizzas, and flip burgers at four fast food restaurants in easter Kentucky. Documents the low…
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…
GRASSROOTS SMALL FARM 1988, 29:00 The story of 260 families in eastern Kentucky who banded together in a cooperative designed to make small, subsistence farms viable. "Best piece of work on…
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 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…