Portfolio Category: Plain People

The Hutterites: To Care and Not To Care

The Hutterites: To Care and Not To Care
[caption id="attachment_2370" align="alignnone" width="212"] The Hutterites: To Care and Not to Care[/caption] While other Utopian societies die, the Hutterites have grown in North America to more than 30,000 people, living in over 300 self-sufficient villages. Although maintaining their medieval culture, the Hutterites farm over a million acres of land in Canada and the U.S. using…
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The Amish: Back Roads to Heaven

The Amish: Back Roads to Heaven
[caption id="attachment_2330" align="alignnone" width="210"] The Amish: Back Roads to Heaven[/caption] This documentary examines the oldest Old Order Amish community, located in the area around Lancaster, Pennsylvania. This group has defined how we think about the Amish, with there gray buggies, dark colored dresses and trim farmsteads. This is one of the few communities allowing mules…
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The Amish: Barn Raising Day

The Amish: Barn Raising Day
  [caption id="attachment_2345" align="alignnone" width="212"] The Amish: Barn Raising Day[/caption] The Amish: Barn Raising Day examines how Amish manage to raise a barn in a single day. Both post and beam construction, the traditional barn construction method, and the more modern stick-built construction techniques are displayed. Run Time: 42:15 - Color, Wide Screen, Stereo, Sub-titled…
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The Amish: How They Survive

The Amish: How They Survive
[caption id="attachment_2339" align="alignnone" width="213"] The Amish: How They Survive[/caption] The Amish: How They Survive examines how the Old Order Amish in Ohio, the world's largest Amish community, manage to keep their traditional ways while living in the midst of modernity. Run Time: 51:00 - Color, Wide Screen, Stereo, Sub-titled in English Winner Bronze Telly Award…
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