Folkstreams Movies

  • 1988
    Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning

    Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning

    Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning

    01988HD

    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...

    Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Ogan Gunning
  • 1989
    Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack

    Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack

    Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack

    5.51989HD

    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...

    Soldier Jack, or The Man Who Caught Death in a Sack
  • 1988
    Cowboy Poets

    Cowboy Poets

    Cowboy Poets

    01988HD

    American cowboys have been writing poetry for over a century. This little-known literary tradition both belies the macho image of the Western heroes...

    Cowboy Poets
  • 2003
    Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks

    Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks

    Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks

    02003HD

    This captivating documentary takes on the commonly-held folk music scholarship assertion that women did not widely participate in old-time music in...

    Women of Old-time Music: Tradition and Change in the Missouri Ozarks