At the height of the American depression in the summer of 1936, writer JAMES AGEE and photographer WALKER EVANS travelled south to Alabama. There they lived with a family of poor white farmers recording their daily lives in intimate detail. What emerged was an extraordinary and personal account of deprivation and poverty - the classic book Let Us Now Praise Famous' Men. Over 40 years later, Arena returned to Alabama to trace the survivors of that original family.
Director CAROL BELL
Producer ALAN YENTOB