Zora Neale Hurston Movies
- 2005
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Their Eyes Were Watching God5.62005HD
A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the...
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- 1928
Fieldwork Footage
Fieldwork Footage5.71928HD
Under the tutelage of anthropologist Franz Boas (her former Columbia professor) and Harlem Renaissance arts patron Charlotte Osgood Mason, Zora Neale...
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- 2023
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space52023HD
Raised in the small all-Black Florida town of Eatonville, Zora Neale Hurston studied at Howard University before arriving in New York in 1925. She...
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- 2001
The Gilded Six Bits
The Gilded Six Bits02001HD
The lives of a loving husband and wife collide with that of a wealthy hustler.
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- 1940
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 19406.41940HD
Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940...
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- 2005
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy02005HD
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- 2008
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun82008HD
Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their...
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- 1929
Ethnographic Films
Ethnographic Films7.51929HD
These documentary sketches were made when the famed novelist was an anthropology student seeking to preserve a record of African American life in the...
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