Tom Davenport Movies

Tom Davenport's realistic adaptation of an old Appalachian story. With nothing more than her plucky spirit and her pocket knife, a mountain girl...

A girl acts spoiled and doesn't want to marry any of the suitors that come for her hand. One guy, who she nick-names "Bristlelip" makes a deal with...

A re-telling of Cinderella set in the rural south during World War II

Adapted from an Appalachian Jack Tale set in the late 1940s, this tale follows a World War II veteran named Jack who, in return for an act of...

An American 1910s version of 'Snow White' where Willa joins a traveling medicine show to escape her evil step-mother.

A soldier can not return home after he leaves the army, and can not find a job. Desperation drives him to make a deal with the Devil, who makes a bet...

In this comic variant of the Grimm's story, The Master Thief, a poor laborer's son wants to marry the dentist's daughter.

Remembering the High Lonesome is the story of the making of a classic documentary film. It is also a profile of filmmaker, photographer, artist, and...

An upper-class, late 19th-century dining room where a wealthy industrialist presides as "king" sets the stage for this version of "The Frog King,"...

The Shakers are America's oldest and most successful experiment in communal living. A century ago, nearly 6,000 Shaker brothers and sisters lived...

An Appalachian version of the classic story of the courage and loyalty of two children abandoned in the forest.

As a teenager growing up in the mountains of rural northern virginia, Jerry Payne wondered "Animals are dying all the time. Where do they all go?"...

This anthology is part 1 of 2, including the Americanized tales of: Hansel and Gretel, The Goose Girl, Bristlelip (King Thrushbeard), and Soldier...

A picture of a small Virginia town in the stories of a man who lived and worked in Markham, VA for 96 years. This footage was taken in 1994.

This anthology is part 2 of 2, including the Americanized tales of: The Frog King, Bearskin (The Man Who Didn't Wash for 7 Years), Jack and the...

A portrait of Arthur "Peg Leg Sam" Jackson --black harmonica player, singer, and comedian who made his living "busking" on the street and performing...

Rapunzel imprisoned in a tall wooden tower by a witch, allows a young man to climb her long brown hair to visit her.

During the 1960s, Tom DAVENPORT was commissioned by National Geographic to film in Taiwan. This was his first documentary, in which he captured...

A series of interviews with and performances by the attendees and musicians at the Warrenton, Virgina country music festival in 1972.

In 1833 Mrs. Frances Silver was hanged in Morganton, North Carolina, for the ax murder of her husband Charles. For a century and a half the case has...