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A lyrical recreation of Lightnin' Hopkins' decision at age eight to stop chopping cotton and start singing for a living. Folklorist/Ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax called Blank's stunning and elegiac short on Hopkins' reminiscences of his youth "one of the three most important films on the South." Color. 10 minutes. 1969.

The Sun's Gonna Shine is a 2014 documentary with a runtime of 9 hours. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 7.0.