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This award-winning series of videos focuses on the culture, heritage, and concerns of
people living in the
Appalachian Mountains. Based in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Appalshop
productions seek to present the unique perspective of the people of this region in their
own voice. For further information, checkout the
Appalshop Home Page. For more complete information on individual titles
check the Libraries on-line catalog,
Minerva. |
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Appalachian
Genesis
HQ 796 .A68 1971
(29 min.)
Focuses on issues concerning Appalachian youth including job opportunities, education,
health facilities and unsafe coal mines. |
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Applewise
HD 8039 .F32 U63 1997
(29 min.)
Apple growers in Wise County, Virginia discuss the various social and economic issues that
have impacted their crops over the last several years. |
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 Artus
Moser of Buckeye
N 6537 .M666 A7 1985
(29 min.)
Through vintage photographs, musical selections, Moser's artwork and interviews with
relatives, this film focuses on Artus Moser, a preservationist of mountain music in North
Carolina. |
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Belinda
RJ 387.A25B4 1992
(40 min.)
A native of eastern Kentucky, Belinda Mason was a small-town journalist and young mother
who became infected with the HIV virus in 1987. Belinda talks about her own experiences
dealing with AIDS and the support she found within her community. |
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Beyond
Measure: Appalachian culture and economy
HN 79 .A13 B4 1995
(58 min.)
Discusses the effect of coal and natural gas mining on the traditional Appalachian way of
life and the environment. |
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 Big
Lever: Party politics in Leslie County, Kentucky
F 457 .L47 B54 198
(53 min.)
Shows how, with its resolutely Republican loyalties reaching back to Civil War days,
Leslie County, Ky., hosted Richard Nixon's first public appearance after resigning the
presidency. |
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Bluegrass,
black-market
HV 8079 .N3 B5 1994
(28 min.)
Attempts to prevent the cultivation and marketing of marijuana in eastern Kentucky are
complicated by the involvement of some local law enforcement officials in drug
trafficking. |
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Breaks of the mountain: the Russell Fork Gorge
None. Ask at Ekstrom Media Desk.
(27 min.) Documentary about issues an Appalachian coalmining community faces while
developing a tourist economy around a river gorge. The video focuses on the
Russell Fork of the Big Sandy River as it flows from Haysi, Virginia to
Elkhorn City, Kentucky. |
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 Buffalo
Creek Flood: an act of man
TC 557 .W42 B84 1975
(40 min.)
Focuses on the Pittson Coal Company, and the disaster which occurred in 1972 when a coal
waste dam burst. |
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Buffalo Creek
revisited
TC 557 .W42 B843 1985
(31 min.)
Presents a documentary on the collapse of a company-owned coal-waste dam that took more
than 125 lives in the West Virginia coal mining region of Buffalo Creek in 1972. Uses
newsreel footage, old photographs, newspaper headlines, and aerial views. |
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 Catfish,
a man of the woods
RS 164 .C37 1974
(28 min.)
Follows the daily life of Catfish Gray, an Appalachian mountain man who gathers herbs from
the woods surrounding his home as medicine for people who come to him for treatment and
advice. |
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 Chairmaker
NK 2715 .C43 1975
(22 min.)
Shows Dewey Thompson, an 80-year-old Appalachian chairmaker, who does everything by hand
to create his chairs, including chopping down the tree. |
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 Chemical
Valley
TD 181 .W42 C44 1991
(58 min.)
Institute, West Virginia is the site of the only Union Carbide plant in the United States.
After the Bhopal, India disaster residents of Institute are worried about the chemical
pollution and danger in their town. |
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 Clinchco
: story of a mining town
HD 8039 .M6152 U62 1982
(30 min.)
Story of the small mining town of Clincho, Va. as told by the town citizens. |
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Coal Bucket Outlaw
None. Ask at Ekstrom Media Desk. (27 min.)
Documentary follows two Kentucky coal truck drivers on their work routines
as a way of examining the connection between coal haulers and the larger
system that produces America's electricity. |
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 Coal
miner, Frank Jackson
HD 8039 .M615 C63 1971
(12 min.)
A profile of coal miner Frank Jackson, who is seen in and around the mines as he tells
what it is like to have spent a lifetime working underground. |
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 Coalmining
women
HD 6073 .M6152 U6 1982
(40 min.)
Women coal miners tell of the economic conditions that led them to seek employment in the
coal mines and problems encountered once hired. |
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Dreadful
memories: the life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
ML 420 .G86 D7 1988
(38 min.)
Reminiscences by fellow musicians, friends, and relatives of the events in this folk
singer's life. Sarah performs some of her own songs. |
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Evelyn
Williams
GE 198 .K4 E93 1995
(27 min.)
Kentuckians for the Commonwealth, an environmental group, protests oil and gas company
operations on Evelyn Williams' land. |
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 Fast
food women: a videotape
TX 945 .F37 1991 (2 copies)
(29 min.)
Examines the working conditions of women working in fast food restaurants in eastern
Kentucky. |
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 Fat
Monroe: A conversation with Gurney Norman
PS 3564 .O57 Z6 1991
(28 min.)
Begins with a dramatization of Gurney Norman's short story, Fat Monroe, a story about a
young boy from eastern Kentucky who accepts a ride home with a stranger. |
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Feathered
Warrior
SF 503.52 .U6 F43 1973
(12 min.)
Shows a cockfight in slow motion and an interview with a cockfighter who tells what he
enjoys about this illegal sport, and concludes with another cockfight. |
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Fighting for
a breath
HD 7269 .M615 F5 1995
(29 min.)
Discusses how coal mining causes black lung disease and the struggle of victims of the
disease to obtain black lung benefits. |
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 Fixin'
to tell about Jack
PZ 8 .F59 1974
(25 min.)
Jack and the Beanstalk retold as "Jack Tales" by storyteller, Ray Hicks to a
group of children in North Carolina. |
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 Frontier
Nursing Service
RG 950 .F75 1984
(29 min.)
A look at an earlier period of the Frontier Nursing Service, established in Leslie County,
Ky. a pioneer service in nurse mid-wifery in a rural setting. Shows a unique kind of
medical service, as well as Eastern Kentucky. |
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Girls Hoops
GV 886 .G57 1998
(28 min.)
This video highlights some of the disappointments and triumphs in the
history of girls basketball in Kentucky. Includes interviews with current
and former players and selected footage from state championship games. |
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Grassroots
small farm
HD 1476 .U5 K46 1988
(29 min.)
Describes an experiment to create grassroots small farms with low income families in
Eastern Ky. |
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 Hand
carved
NK 9798 .C67 H3 1981
(88 min.)
Follows Chester Cornett as he cuts down a tree on the site of his family home in
Appalachia, transports the wood to Cincinnati where he lives, and builds an eight-legged
double rocker by hand. |
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 Hands
on: a year in an eastern Kentucky classroom
LB 1507 .H35 1992
(28 min.)
"Hands on" goes inside an eastern Kentucky classroom to examine the potential of
a student-centered, democratically run learning environment. Teacher Linda Oxendine-Brown
and her 24 second graders are the collective managers of their classroom. |
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- Hard times in the country: the schools
- LB 1567 .H37 1988
(29 min.)
Documentary that explores the impact of the federal government's War on Poverty on school
systems in eastern Kentucky and describes how the "solutions" that were
implemented often failed to meet the needs of the area's children.
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Harriette
Simpson Arnow: 1908-1986
PS 3501 .R64 Z74 1987
(35 min.)
Author Harriette Simpson Arnow talks about her life and writings, from her first job
teaching in a one-room school to the publication if her successful books. |
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His eye is
on the sparrow: Ethel Caffie-Austin, minister of Black sacred music ML
420 .C14 H57 1999
(56 min.)
Interviews, oral history, archival material, and performance footage chronicle the life of
Ethel Caffie-Austin, West Virginia's "First Lady of Gospel Music."
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Homemade
tales: songs and sayings of Florida Slone
ML 420 .S664 H66 1993
(28 min.)
Explores the life of Florida Slone who grew up in Lackey, Ky. Florida sings songs she has
written and talks about her life in the Appalachian region. |
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I'm what this
is all about
LC 5147 .W4 I4 1985
(29 min.)
Presents an overview of the complex issues that confront parents and educators in rural
schools. The program was co-produced by the educational system of West Virginia parent's
group. |
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 In the good old fashion way: the Old Regular Baptist
Church
BX 6389.393 .I5 1973
(29 min.)
Shows how members of the Old Regular Baptist Church, one of the Nation's oldest religions
unique to the American Appalachian Mountains,are struggling to maintain their membership
while facing
diminishing membership and lack of interest from the young.
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In ya blood
PN 1997 .I52 1971
(20 min.)
A dramatic film whose central theme revolves around the decision faced by all Appalachian
youth: whether to stay in the mountains or leave in search of a better life. |
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It's hard to tell the singer
from the song: Hazel Dickens
None. Ask at Ekstrom Media Desk.
(61 min.) Chronicles the life and accomplishments of West Virginia native singer and
songwriter Hazel Dickens. |
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Ivanhoe
HN 80 .I9 1993
(28 min.)
A brief discussion of the history and culture of Ivanhoe, Va. |
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 John
Jacob Niles: a portrait of America's classic folk collector, composer, and balladeer ML 420 .N55 J64 1993
(31 min.)
Documentary is biography of the life and work of 85-year-old folk ballad singer John Jacob
Niles at his home and in concert. He is responsible for folk music revival in the
Appalachians. |
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Judge Wooten
and a coon-on-a-log
F 106 .J83 1971
(10 min.)
A 4th of July contest in which dogs are timed for their speed in getting a raccoon off a
log and into a river serves as the background for Judge Wooten to discuss life in the
Mountains through subjects ranging from tourism to moonshine. |
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Justice in
the coalfields
HD 5325 .M631989 W4 1995
(57 min.)
A documentary focusing on the United Mine Workers strike against the Pittston Coal
Company, its effects on the people and the communities involved, and the unresolved issues
left in its wake. |
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 Kingdom
Come School
LB 2832.3 .K4 K56 1973
(22 min.)
Focuses on Harding Ison, a teacher, who uses modern methods to instruct his pupils in a
one-room schoolhouse in eastern Ky. Contrasts his views with those of the county school
superintendent. |
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 Lee
Banks: mountain farmer
HD 1476 .U5 L4 1974
(9 min.)
A tribute to a strong, independent man who tills the soil on his small farm with a horse
and wooden plow, finding joy in his work and harmony with the land. |
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Lily May
Ledford
ML 420 .L293 L5 1988
(29 min.)
Friends, neighbors and fellow musicians reminisce about the life and times of this country
musicians who played the fiddle and sang. Color sequences interspersed with black and
white film clips from past performances. |
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Long journey
home
HG 1985 .A127 L66 1987
(58 min.)
Study of a contemporary Appalachian family that moved to a large city and then returned to
the Appalachian region. |
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Lord &
father
HD 1478 .U6 L67 1983
(45 min.)
Examines the tension between a Kentucky tobacco farmer, Joe Gray, Sr., who defends his way
of life as landlord to tenant farmer, and his son, who questions its morality. Examines
the son's objections to the growing of tobacco and the social implications. |
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 Mabel
Parker Hardison Smith
LA 2317 .S65 M33 1986
(29 min.)
Presents a character study of Mabel Parker Hardison Smith, who taught school for over
thirty-five years in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky, as she recollects her life in an
Appalachian Black miner's family. |
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Millstone
Sewing Center
HV 98 .K4 M55 1972
(13 min.)
Shows the activities in the Millstone Sewing Center, a community center which used the
volunteer work of local widows and older women residents of the center in order to produce
well-fitting, new clothes for the poor of Lecter County, Ky., free of charge. |
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Mine war on
Blackberry Creek
HD 5325 .M62 B53 1986
(29 min.)
Presents an overview of the on going strike of union coal miners against the A.T. Massey
Co. and includes an intimate look at both workers and strike breakers. Chronicles the
UMWA's first confrontation with a multinational corporation. |
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 Minnie
Black's gourd band
SB 413 .G6 M56 1988
(29 min.)
An 89-year-old woman from southeastern Ky. uses her home grown gourds to sculpt a fanciful
bestiary as well as to make instruments for the senior citizens gourd band that she
started. |
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 Morgan
Sexton: Bull Creek banjo player
ML 420 .S49 M6 1991
(28 min.)
The life and music of Morgan Sexton, banjo player from Bull Creek. |
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Mountain
vision
HE 8700.79 .U6M68 1990
(29 min.)
Introduces the audience to how community television has been used by and for the people of
the Appalachian mountain region of Kentucky. |
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 Mud
Creek Clinic
RA 771.6 .K4 M84 1986
(29 min.)
Describes the formation of the Mud Creek Clinic, explores the feelings among patients and
community members that the clinic belongs to them, and draws a portrait of clinic director
Eula Hall. |
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Nature's way
RS 164 .N38 1973
(22 min.)
Shows a variety of Appalachian folk people and their methods for curing diseases using
herbs and other local cures. |
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Nimrod
Workman: to fit my own category
HD 8073 .W6 N5 1975
(35 min.)
Nimrod Workman, a 78 year-old retired coal miner and ballad singer, reminisces about early
union organizing and his life as a miner. He also performs several songs. |
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 Oaksie
TT 879 .B3 O2 1979
(22 min.)
Provides a portrait of Oaksie Caudill, basketmaker, fiddler, and harp player from Cowan
Creek in Letcher County, Ky. Oaksie demonstrates basket making while talking about his
craft, his music and his life. |
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On our own
land
KFK 1455.5 .Z9 O5 1988
(28 min, 30 sec.)
Through interview and documentary, presents the controversy surrounding strip mining and
the so-called " broad-form deed" in Ky., its legal effect on the conflicting
rights of the land surface and mineral rights owners. |
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One ring
circus: the Jules & Beck Circus.
GV 1811 .J85 O5 1987
(29 min.)
Presents the story of the Jules & Beck Circus. |
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 Open
windows: an American festival of music, theater and dance
PN 1590 .F47 O64 1991
(29 min.)
Open windows is a part of the American Film Festival Project; a national coalition of
performing artists which collaborates with communities to develop cultural exchange. |
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Ourselves and
that promise
N 71 .097 1976
(27min.)
Several Kentucky artists contemplate the history and geography that molded their work.
Records the works themselves (poems, photographs, & drawings ) and the artists'
remarks about those pieces. |
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- Peace stories
D 570.9 .P38 1991
(29 min.)
- A veteran of World War I, an employee of Oak Ridge
Atomic Plant, and a veteran of Vietnam discuss how war has affected them.
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 Portraits
and dreams: photographs by Appalachian children
HQ 792 .U5 P67
(18 min.) .
Looks at the black-and-white photographs taken by children ages 6 - 14, which capture
their southeastern Kentucky mountain communities. |
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 Quilting
women
NK 9112 .Q51 1976
(28 min.)
An appreciative examination of the art of quilting, showing women of previous generations,
as well as of today, as they practice and comment on various aspects of the craft. |
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Ralph Stanley story
None. Ask at Ekstrom Media Desk. (82 min.) This film tells Ralph's story through interviews with Ralph, fellow
musicians, and those who know Ralph best. |
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 Ramsay
Trade Fair
HF 5472 .U62 W4 1973
(18 min.)
Shows what happens at the weekly flea market in Ramsay, West Virginia, where a variety of
articles and gossip are traded in a spirit of fair play and hard bargaining. |
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Ready for
harvest: clear-cutting in the southern Appalachians
SD 427 .C53 R4 1993
(29 min.)
Discusses the pros and cons as well as the environmental issues that arise from
"clearcutting", a method of logging where all trees regardless of size are cut.
Talks with timber companies, residents and representatives from the forest service. |
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Red Fox /
second hangin' / Roadside Theater
GR 110 .V8 R43 1983
(90 min.)
Several stories, enacted by the storytellers, centering on Dr. Marshall B. "Red
Fox" Taylor from the Civil War to 1893, ending with his hanging in Wise County, Va. |
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Rough side of
the mountain
HC 107 .V8 R6 1997
(57 min.)
The residents of two towns in Southwest Virginia (Ivanhoe and Trammel) struggle to rebuild
their communities amid high unemployement and poverty due to factory closings. |
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 Roving
pickets, 1961-1965
HD 8039 .M6152 U66 1991
(28 min.)
Discusses the roving pickets that were formed by the coal miners in Kentucky to try to
combat the inadequacies of the union. |
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Sarah Bailey
N 6537 .B158 S27 1984
(29 min.)
A remarkable folk artist from Harlan County, Ky. who "invented" dolls and
flowers made from corn shucks, shows her work and demonstrates her craft. |
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Shelter
None. Ask at Ekstrom Media Desk. (58 min.)
Shelter tells the story of 5 rural West Virginia women who come to the
Family Refuge Center in Lewisburg, WV over a 5 year period as they try to
find freedom, justice, and safety for themselves and their children. |
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Sludge
None. Ask at Media Services desk for DVD. (40 min.)
Tells the story of the massive coal waste damn break on October 11, 2000.
306 million gallons of sludge was sent town two tributaries of the Tug River
in Martin County, Ky. The spill was 30 times larger than the Exxon
Valdez spill in Alaska. This film was shot over a 4 year period
chronicling the continuing story of the disaster, the resulting federal
investigation, an the looming threat of sludge ponds throughout the
coalfield region. |
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So was
Einstein: a look at dyslexic children
RC 394 .W6 S6 1988
(29 min.)
Introduces dyslexia as experienced by students, their parents, teachers, and tutors of a
school in eastern Kentucky. Special teaching techniques appropriate for students with
dyslexia are demonstrated. |
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 Sourwood
mountain dulcimers
ML 1015 .A6 S68 1977
(28 min.)
Examines the arts of dulcimer building and playing as part of the Appalachian heritage. |
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Step back
Cindy: old time dancing in southwest Va.
GV 1763 .S74 1990
(28 min.)
A documentary of old time dancing (sometimes called colonial square dancing) in southwest
Virginia. |
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 Strangers and kin
F 106 .S77 1984
(58 min.)
Attempts to dispel prejudices and misconceptions about Appalachian people and their
mountain heritage. Shows Appalachian actors performing and talking about their own
relationships to their native
hills.
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Strip mining:
energy, environment and economics
TD 195 .S75 S77 1979
(50 min.)
Discusses how strip mining began, its growth, and the consequences of this type of mining
for the Appalachian region. |
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 Strip-mining
in Appalachia
TN 291 .S77 1973
(25 min.)
Discusses the controversy surrounding the strip mining of coal in the Appalachian
Mountains. |
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 Struggle
of Coon Branch Mountain
LC 5147 .W4 S7 1972
(13 min.)
A documentary in which various residents of a small rural West Virginia town protest
bureaucratic indifference toward their desires for adequate educational opportunities for
their children. |
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 Sunny
side of life
ML 421 .C37 S86 1985
(55 min.)
Presents a documentary on the original Carter family of Southwestern Va. and their musical
legacy. Points out that individual performers pass on, but their joy and spirit endures
"when we keep on the sunny side of life." |
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 Tell
me a story, sing me a song
PN 2266 .T45 1985
(29 min.)
Offers a look at indigenous theater in the U.S., especially issues surrounding Black,
Jewish, and Appalachian theater. Members of three companies, A Free Southern Theater, A
Traveling Jewish Theater and Appalshop's. |
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Three
mountain tales
GR 108 .T47 1982
(12 min.)
Three mountain folk tales as told by the members of the Roadside Theater, illustrated with
pastel drawings by taleteller Angelyn DeBord. |
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To save
the land and people
TD 195 .S75 T6 1999
(57min.)
Discusses the history and impact of strip mining in Kentucky. Focuses on actions by people
directly affected by mining on both sides of the question: miners and farmers. Highlights
the evolving legislation imposed to control strip mining and enabling newer methods such
as "mountain top removal".
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 Tomorrow's
people
F 106 .T65 1973
(17 min.)
Combines mountain music and views of Appalachian people and places. |
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 Tradition
HJ 5021 .T73 1973
(20 min.)
Describes the making of moonshine in the Kentucky hills. Presents interviews with people
involved, including a man who is a moonshiner and a law official who tells how moonshiners
are located. |
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Tribute to
Carl D. Perkins
E 748 .P47 T75 1984
(29 min.)
Carl D. Perkins, a respected member of Congress for nearly forty years, died on Aug. 3, 1984,
on his way back to his eastern Kentucky district. One hundred members of Congress traveled
to Hindman, Ky. to show their respects. |
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 Unbroken
Tradition: Jerry Brown's pottery NK
4210 .B76 U63 1989 Jerry
Brown tells how he came to carry on the family tradition of being a potter and discusses his
methods. |
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United Mine
Workers of America, 1970: a house divided.
HD 8073 .B69 U5 1971
(14 min.)
Contrasts statements made by Tom Boyle, president of the UMWA, at a miner's rally with
those of the anti-Boyle faction. Included are dissident miners and exposes the weakness of
the union under his leadership 2 years before the rank and file rejected him. |
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War, taxes
and the almighty dollar
HJ 2381 .W37 1988
(30 min.)
The burden of taxes is a nationwide problem that has been passed clear down to the local
level. Some of the issues addressed are $100.00 tool boxes going for $10,000.00, Defense
Dept., jets causing farm foreclosures in Southwest Virginia. |
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 Waterground
TS 2135 .U65 N67 1977
(16 min.)
Takes a look at the owner of a family-operated, water-powered gristmill in North Carolina.
Shows his skepticism of modern society as he comments about the mass-produced flour and
laments the passing
of a bygone era when the small farmer could thrive.
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Whippin' the Devil
None. Ask at Media Services desk for DVD
(27 min.)
A portrait of Guy Roberts, moonshiner in his youth, and how after a robbery
attempt he was forced to flee across America on the lam. The video
weaves together Guy's own description of his journey, family photographs and
the banjo music of Dock Boggs. |
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 Whoa
Mule
GV 1763 .W5 1980
(4 min.)
A square dance, called by Lee Sexton. |
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Woodrow
Cornett, Letcher County butcher
HD 8039 .M962 L4 1971
(10 min.)
A portrait of Woodrow Cornett and his work and a look at the mountain custom of hog
butchering performed by a master of the craft. |
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Yellow Creek,
Kentucky
TD 225 .Y35 Y3 1984
(29 min.)
Documentary about the legal and political struggle of the residents of a small southeast
Kentucky community and their efforts to stop a commercial tannery from dumping toxic
wastes into the creek that flows through their town. |
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