Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)

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 would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watc ...

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)

Zora Neale Hurston, path-breaking novelist, pioneering anthropologist and one of the first black women to enter the American literary canon (Their Eyes Were Watching God), established the African American vernacular as one of the most vital, inventive voic ...

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy (2005)

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. I ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005)

A drama set in the 1920s, where free-spirited Janie Crawford's search for happiness leads her through several different marriages, challenging the morals of her small town. Based on the novel by Zora Neale Hurston. ...

The Gilded Six Bits (2001)

The lives of a loving husband and wife collide with that of a wealthy hustler. ...

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

Field recordings of religious services in a South Carolina Gullah community. Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 is a 1940 short documentary film which shows religious services taking place in a South Carolina Gullah community. I ...