CNAM Film Library

Five of our penetrating and hilarious portraits of Louisiana culture! YEAH YOU RITE!, THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, MOSQUITOES AND HIGH WATER, and LOUSIANA BOYS.

Two wonderful and insightful documentaries in one package! The classic YEAH YOU RITE! about New Orleans words and accents, and the provocative GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL about the N'Awlins way of practicing politics.

Three eye-opening and hugely entertaining behind-the-scenes look at politics American style. From the bayou swamps of LOUISIANA BOYS to the transcontinental sweep of Peabody-Award-winning VOTE FOR ME and New Orleans' colorfully nasty electioneering in GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL, our Politics Collec...

The truth about motherhood finally revealed! Real American mothers tell all in a funny and poignant look at the toughest, greatest job in town, sharing their child-rearing stories with warmth, humor, wisdom, and remarkable candor. Hilarious and heartbreaking, MOMS celebrates what it means to be a...

Both of our classic films about the way Americans talk, available in one hilarious package! The Peabody-winning AMERICAN TONGUES and the revealing YEAH YOU RITE! Watch them and you'll never again think you don't have an accent!

This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique window on the way we judge people by the way they talk. AMERICAN TONGUES goes to the streets and the countryside to listen to American English in all its diversity and col...

This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique window on the way we judge people by the way they talk. AMERICAN TONGUES goes to the streets and the countryside to listen to American English in all its diversity and col...

The classic film that has spawned thousands of conversations about class in America -- the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular so...

The classic film that has spawned thousands of conversations about class in America -- the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular so...

This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way they do, where the words come from, and what it means to talk with a New Orleans accent. THIS PACKAGE IS FOR HOME VIDEO USERS ONLY. If you are going t...

What's on the mind of the woman next door when it comes to sex? We know all about the sexual preferences of Cosmo girls and the women of Sex in the City, but the views of ordinary American women are sometimes drowned out by their more glamorous sisters. In Sex: female, five dozen American women r...

The truth about motherhood finally revealed! Real American mothers tell all in a funny and poignant look at the toughest, greatest job in town, sharing their child-rearing stories with warmth, humor, wisdom, and remarkable candor. Hilarious and heartbreaking, MOMS celebrates what it means to be a...

This award-winning film takes an unusual look at the West's influence on Japanese popular culture, looking at everything from weddings with giant rubber cakes to "love hotels", decorated in different Western fantasies; to Tokyo businessmen in letter-perfect cowboy outfits singing the theme to Raw...

New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina. THIS PACKAGE IS FOR HOME VIDEO USERS ONLY. Institutional customers should choose the appropriate pa...

"Small Ball -- A Little League Story" captures the hope, thrills and excitement of players, parents and coaches as a team of 11 and 12-year-old Little Leaguers go from their small northern California town all the way to the Little League Baseball World Series Championships in Williamsport, Pennsy...

What is it to actually run for office? To organize campaigns? To produce negative ads? To build legislative coalitions? See all this and more in this entertaining and revealing Peabody Award-winning TV series that travels across the country to show us how politics is really played in the U.S.

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Maggie Lauterer is a former TV reporter running for Congress in the mountains of western North Carolina. She has no prior political experience, but she's a professional folk musician with real charisma on the campaign trail. As the first woman to run for this office, we follow Maggie as she strug...

They say that Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus, but the story is a lot more complicated. The Anti-Americans is a whimsical yet serious look at the estrangement between Europeans and America that has developed over the last few years.

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A hilarious, unorthodox look at the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, home to Huey and Earl Long, David Duke, and Edwin Edwards, where politics is a long-running spectator sport.

Winner of the DuPont Columbia Journalism Award.

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This award-winning video examines the unique history and culture of one of America's least known ethnic groups, the Spanish-speaking "Islenos" who live in the bayous east of New Orleans and are celebrated for their tradition of decimas – long, descriptive ballads about events in their past lives ...

This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique window on the way we judge people by the way they talk. AMERICAN TONGUES goes to the streets and the countryside to listen to American English in all its diversity and col...

This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique window on the way we judge people by the way they talk. AMERICAN TONGUES goes to the streets and the countryside to listen to American English in all its diversity and col...

This Peabody Award-winning look at American accents and their social implications is both a proven crowd-pleaser and a unique window on the way we judge people by the way they talk. AMERICAN TONGUES goes to the streets and the countryside to listen to American English in all its diversity and c...

The classic film that has spawned thousands of conversations about class in America -- the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular so...

The classic film that has spawned thousands of conversations about class in America -- the 800-pound gorilla in American life that most Americans don't think about: how do income, family background, education, attitudes, aspirations, and even appearance mark someone as a member of a particular so...

This award winning film is a fast paced, humorous look at the colorful way the residents of New Orleans express themselves - why they talk the way they do, where the words come from, and what it means to talk with a New Orleans accent. CLOSED CAPTIONED.

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What is it to actually run for office? To organize campaigns? To produce negative ads? To build legislative coalitions? See all this and more in this entertaining and revealing Peabody Award-winning TV series that travels across the country to show us how politics is really played in the U.S.

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The truth about motherhood finally revealed! Real American mothers tell all in a funny and poignant look at the toughest, greatest job in town, sharing their child-rearing stories with warmth, humor, wisdom, and remarkable candor. Hilarious and heartbreaking, MOMS celebrates what it means to be a...

What's on the mind of the woman next door when it comes to sex? We know all about the sexual preferences of Cosmo girls and the women of Sex in the City, but the views of ordinary American women are sometimes drowned out by their more glamorous sisters. In Sex: female, five dozen American women r...

A hilarious, unorthodox look at the colorful, Byzantine political culture of Louisiana, home to Huey and Earl Long, David Duke, and Edwin Edwards, where politics is a long-running spectator sport.

Winner of the DuPont Columbia Journalism Award.

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New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina.

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This award-winning video examines the unique history and culture of one of America's least known ethnic groups, the Spanish-speaking "Islenos" who live in the bayous east of New Orleans and are celebrated for their tradition of decimas – long, descriptive ballads about events in their past lives ...

Two hilarious, provocative looks at the colorful way of democracy down in the Bayou State! GETTING BACK TO ABNORMAL looks at racial infighting in post-Katrina New Orleans, while LOUISIANA BOYS - RAISED ON POLITICS is a full-service guide to the colorful characters who populated twentieth-century ...

Maggie Lauterer is a former TV reporter running for Congress in the mountains of western North Carolina. She has no prior political experience, but she's a professional folk musician with real charisma on the campaign trail. As the first woman to run for this office, we follow Maggie as she strug...

This award-winning film takes an unusual look at the West's influence on Japanese popular culture, looking at everything from weddings with giant rubber cakes to "love hotels", decorated in different Western fantasies; to Tokyo businessmen in letter-perfect cowboy outfits singing the theme to Raw...

A touching and humor-filled portrait of a remarkable piece of America's last political kingdom – Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, a racial and ethnic gumbo in the swamps ruled for over 60 years by the all–powerful Perez family and the notorious Judge Leander Perez. The documentary focuses on the fi...

New Orleans' long history of political dysfunction and complicated racial dynamics gets a new lease on life when Stacy Head, a polarizing white woman, wins a seat on the city council after Katrina.

THIS PACKAGE IS FOR HOME VIDEO USERS ONLY. If you are going to be showing this to classes, pleas...

Screeners of all CNAM titles. Louis Alvarez and Andrew Kolker, twice winners of both the Peabody Award and the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, have over the past 35 years produced critically praised documentaries for their production companies, Kingfish Productions and The Center for New Americ...