Set in the rural South in the early years of World War II, Ashpet is a humorously touching version of Cinderella, the world's most popular folktale. A resourceful and beautiful girl (Ashpet) is the...
In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. For a century and a half the case has lived on in newspapers, pamphlets, memoires,...
A tale of endurance and spiritual transformation through suffering. After making a pact with the devil, a former Civil War soldier is given unlimited riches, but he will lose his soul unless he wears a...
John E. "Frail" Joines was a master tale teller from Wilkes County, North Carolina, on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge Mountains. His hunting tales, stories from World War II, and religious...
A portrait of the last Black medicine-show performer, Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson, with brilliant harmonica songs, tales of hoboing, buck dances, and an authentic live medicine-show performance filmed...
A comic tale focusing on the importance of empathy and kindness, this adaptation of the Grimm's tale, "King Thrushbeard," is set in Federalist Virginia (about 1815). Similar to The Taming of the Shrew,...
An upper-class, late 19th-century dining room where a wealthy industrialist presides as "king" sets the stage for this version of "The Frog King," the classic tale about a princess's promise to a frog....
This ancient tale of mistaken identity, endurance and the triumph of virtue through honorable means is translated to 17th-century America. While escorting a princess on horseback to her bridegroom, a...
When a poor Depression-era mountain father and stepmother can no longer afford to feed their children, Hansel and Gretel, they walk them into the woods and "lose" them. Banjo tunes serenade the...
African American actors in period costumes and vintage cars re-enact a variant of the Grimms' comic story, "The Master Thief," in a small 1930s American town. Jack, a poor laborer's son, wants to marry...
Tom Davenport
