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Style Wars Opening section 2k

Video | 6 months ago

Opening section of the classic film Style Wars by Henry Chalfant and Tony Silver. Watch the complete documentary on Folkstreams.

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River Rails Roads trailer featuring Tom Breiding

Video | 7 months ago

Watch the film on Folkstreams.net “River, Rails or Road” reflects singer-songwriter Tom Breiding’s admiration for his home state of West Virginia, his respect for the triumphs, hardships and dedication of the labor movement, and for the lives of those whose...

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Clog Dance Trailer

Video | 11 months ago

British Film Institute documentary from 1959. Watch the entire film on Folkstreams.net or on the BFI site. During the Industrial Revolution, the working classes of northern England flocked to work in coal mines, pits and cotton mills to make a living. It wa...

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In the Barnegat Bay Tradition trailer

Podcast | 11 months ago

Watch the entire film on Folkstreams.net A half-hour documentary about decoy carving and sneakbox (wooden duck-hunting boats) building along the New Jersey Shore, featuring National Heritage Award winning decoy carver Harry V. Shourds and boatbuilder Sam Hu...

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Documentaries from Pine Barrens New Jersey.

Guide | 12 months ago

Watch these 5 short films on Folkstreams.net Cliff and Steve Frazee - Cedar Farmers (1986) 5 mins Joe Reid - Garvey Builder (1986), 5 mins Ken Camp - Rail birding Guide (1986), 7 mins Stephen Lee - Cranberry Grower (1986) 5 mins Norman Taylor - Fox Hunter (...

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Street Music trailer

Video | 1 years ago

Watch the film on Folkstreams.net From Porkchop, the 63 year-old tap-dancer legend in New Orleans, to Grimes Poznikov, the Automatic Human Jukebox in San Francisco, to Mary Samford, Communist, playwright and street singer in New York City: street performers...

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APPEARING IN PERSON The Life and Legend of Wade Hill trailer

Video | 1 years ago

Watch the film on Folkstreams.net. Bluegrass journeyman Wade Hill spent forty years on the road, living hard but his own way, realizing brilliant show business dreams beside his musical heroes. A banjo prodigy in East Tennessee at age 13, Wade’s life has pl...

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Mana trailer

Video | 1 years ago

Watch this film on Folkstreams.net. MANA - BEYOND BELIEF takes viewers on a global journey, weaving through different cultures and continents to reveal how people across the world invest objects with meaning and power. From sacred relics to patriotic symbol...

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The Other Way Back: Dancing with Dudley preview

Review | 1 years ago

Watch it on Folkstreams.net Musician and caller Dudley Laufman was the charismatic figure at the center of a dance revival in the late 1960s and 1970s whose effects can still be seen in today's contra dance scene nationwide. Leader of the Canterbury Country...

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City Folk Trailer

Podcast | 1 years ago

Watch the complete film on Folkstreasms.net. City Folk explores the 20th-century revival of English Country Dance through the history of Pinewoods, a renowned dance camp in Massachusetts. Influenced by English folklorist Cecil Sharp and later energized by t...

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Blow the Tannery Whistle Preview (opening section)

Review | 1 years ago

Playwright Gary Carden's story of growing up in Sylva, North Carolina. Watch the complete 1994 film on Folkstreams.net

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Limestone Trailer

Video | 1 years ago

Watch the documentary on Folkstreams.net. The Empire State Building in New York City and all of the major buildings on the National Mall in Washington DC including the National Monument, are made from Indiana limestone. Limestone plays a deep and fundamenta...

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