Film
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940Directed by Zora Neale Hurston
Where to watch
Stream
- Criterion Channel
- Released
- Runtime
- 42m
About Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
- Documentary
Synopsis
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. In 2005, Commandment Keeper Church was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
- Director
- Zora Neale Hurston
