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Showing 1 - 10 of 36 titles with a criteria of Available to public libraries AND Subject is Rural Sociology
The Backward Class
Filmmaker Madeleine Grant documents the first dalit caste students as they attempt to take the Indian School Certificate exams to enter university.
Collective Eye Films | 2014 | 91 minutes
Crow Country: Our Right to Food Sovereignty
Tribal members on the Crow reservation fight for better food and a better future for their community.
GOOD DOCS | 2020 | 20 minutes
The Elk Forest
The hunt for the biggest animal in the forest brings the hunters closer to each other, and creates the yearly main event in the village.
First Hand Films | 2021 | 57 minutes
Escuela
ESCUELA is a clear-eyed view into the lives of contemporary Mexican American migrants and their struggles to educate their children while obtaining employment.
Women Make Movies | 2002 | 53 minutes
Ever Green
For almost 40 years, partners Marianne Edain and Steve Erickson have worked continually to retain the rural character and ecological diversity of Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, north of Seattle, through their organization Whidbey Environmental Action Network (WEAN).
Bullfrog Films | 2022 | 30 minutes
Farmsteaders
Follows Nick and Celeste Nolan and their young family on a journey to resurrect Nick's grandfather's dairy farm as a locally sustainable family farm.
Bullfrog Films | 2020 | 52 minutes
Fighting in Southwest Louisiana
A portrait of Danny Cooper, a mailman in the rural American South who has been openly gay since high school in the middle of “redneck” country.
Strange Attractions | 1992 | 27 minutes
Fortune Teller
The life of a countryside fortune teller provides a candid and deeply revelatory look at people living on the fringes of Chinese society.
dGenerate Films | 2012 | 129 minutes
The Grasslands Project - A Ranchers View
Miles Anderson is in a tough spot. The land he ranches has been in his family for over a hundred years, but it’s bordered on three sides by an expanding Grasslands National Park and its conservation imperative.
National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 8 minutes
The Grasslands Project - After the Fire
Small rural communities rely on their volunteer firefighters to handle any emergencies.
National Film Board of Canada | 2016 | 10 minutes
