Roots & Hollers
- 2011
- 26m
'Roots & Hollers' is a half-hour documentary taking us inside the world of wild American ginseng. Asians revere ginseng as a legendary panacea and a single root can sell for thousands. The f... Read all'Roots & Hollers' is a half-hour documentary taking us inside the world of wild American ginseng. Asians revere ginseng as a legendary panacea and a single root can sell for thousands. The film follows two young Kentuckians along a remarkable underground trade that has linked Asi... Read all'Roots & Hollers' is a half-hour documentary taking us inside the world of wild American ginseng. Asians revere ginseng as a legendary panacea and a single root can sell for thousands. The film follows two young Kentuckians along a remarkable underground trade that has linked Asia to the mountainous hollers of Appalachia for hundreds of years.