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Lord and father / a film by Joe Gray, Jr.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tobacco industry--Economic aspects--Kentucky.
- Tobacco industry.
- Farm tenancy--Kentucky.
- Farm tenancy.
- Sharecropping--Kentucky.
- Sharecropping.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Feature films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Whitesburg, KY : Appalshop Inc., 1983.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Lord and Father documents the conflicting viewpoints of father and son over profitability and morality in the operation of a Kentucky tobacco farm. The issues come to a head when a cancer-related death strikes the tenant family that works their land, and the value of human life versus the necessity of making a living becomes personal. Integrated into this portrait is an overview of the economic history of tobacco growing in the United States and of sharecropping, the social system that underpins it. The film spotlights the bonds of duty, love, guilt, and economic interdependence that tie these families together.
- Notes:
- Title from title screen (viewed September 22, 2025).
- OCLC:
- 1544909477
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