Tony Buba Movies

This documentary focuses on the Civil Rights Movement in the heavily segregated steel industry and its equally segregated union, The United...

The third entry in Tony Buba's Mon Valley Trilogy

Ghosts of Amistad by Tony Buba is based on Marcus Rediker's The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). It...

A visit with family to learn how to make fresh pasta.

In this film, Buba struggles over whether he should make a film about a food bank, or just use the money to donate food to the bank. In the end, he...

A year goes by during the G.W. Bush administration.

Tony Buba trains his documentary lens on the washing of his 87-year-old grandmother’s kitchen walls, an annual ritual. While the filmmaker...

From implosions of steel mills after the decline of the industry to the demolition of the community hospital in Braddock, filmmaker Tony Buba...

A look into traditional sausage making.

A visit with a barber in his autumn years.

A glimpse into the economic decline of Braddock PA.

Citizens of Braddock PA are asked about the poetry of their city.

Filmmaker Tony Buba charts the history and present of his hometown, Braddock, Pennsylvania

A tour of the last remaining pawn shop in Braddock, PA.

A snapshot of a pizzeria in Braddock, PA circa 1990.

A look back at Braddock's "Cot Club" and its patrons.

This short tells the story of a cafe where steel workers come to eat.