Documentaries
This is a trailer for the film Direct Action.
This film explores the pivotal story behind the scenes during the 1960s' civil rights turmoil in Birmingham, Alabama. Facing alienation from peers and hostility from the local government, some businessmen and a group of passionate lawyers led the movement to change city government and alter the direction of Birmingham’s social-economic and political future. |
Renaissance man Eugene Walter was a largely self-taught writer, poet, actor, painter, set designer, songwriter and puppeteer. Walter's life was his greatest art form. It was his genius to inspire and entertain everyone he met, and survive with no visible means of financial support. Directed/Produced by Robert Clem. Co-produced by Tommy V. Wier.
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Story of chance meeting in 1937 of Florence, Alabama newlyweds and Frank Lloyd Wright that leads to the architect designing the young couple a unique Usonian style home.
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A cappella gospel music and its origins in Jefferson County, Alabama. Directed and produced by Robert Clem. Associate Producer Tommy V. Wier
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A profile of self-taught folk artist Charlie Lucas and storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham who were neighbors in Selma, Alabama.
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In 1954, Attorney General-elect Albert Patterson is assassinated, and his son John Patterson took his place on the ticket. John vowed to clean up the gambling and prostitution in Phenix City and bring his father's killers to justice. He later became governor, and was thrust into national and international politics with events such as civil rights demonstrations, the freedom riders, the Bay of Pigs, and the removal of Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. Directed/Produced by Robert Clem. Co-produced by Tommy V. Wier.
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