Folkstreams. Movie Trailers
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Total trailers found: 4
Cowboy Poets Trailer (1988)
07 April 1988
American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes and serves as an imaginative form of oral history.
Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
Born in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, Gunning suffered a life of bitter poverty which became the fuel for dozens of moving songs about working people, the mines, and the great coal strikes of the twenties and thirties.
Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks Trailer (2003)
01 January 2003
This captivating documentary takes on the commonly-held folk music scholarship assertion that women did not widely participate in old-time music in the Ozarks.
Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack Trailer (1989)
01 April 1989
Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of kindness, receives two magical gifts: a sack that can catch anything and a jar that can show whether a sick person will recover or die.
