Roving Pickets
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
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
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
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
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
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…