Slatersville: America's First Mill Village
SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is an Emmy and Telly award-winning series. This historical documentary is told across eleven episodes and has taken over a decade to produce. It retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village in America, located in the Blackstone Valley of northern Rhode Island. Filmed across seven states and the U.K. SLATERSVILLE is directed, produced and edited by award-winning filmmaker Christian de Rezendes, a native of the village. The series is educating and entertaining a wide range of audiences around the globe.
- 2022-2024
- 2 seasons
- Rhode Island PBS
- Documentary
SLATERSVILLE: AMERICA'S FIRST MILL VILLAGE is an Emmy and Telly award-winning series. This historical documentary is told across eleven episodes and has taken over a decade to produce. It retraces the two-hundred-year history of the first industrialized mill village in America, located in the Blackstone Valley of northern Rhode Island. Filmed across seven states and the U.K. SLATERSVILLE is directed, produced and edited by award-winning filmmaker Christian de Rezendes, a native of the village. The series is educating and entertaining a wide range of audiences around the globe.
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Season 2 Episode Guide
Episode 6
They Will All Be My Friends
Near the turn of the 20th Century, Henry Plimpton Kendall, a young mill owner from Walpole, Massachusetts descends upon Slatersville and purchases the village to expand his operations, only to find the morale of its workers bottomed out. Kendall recruits employees from the greater Boston area to live and work in the village and raise its productivity as well as its spirit, much to the challenge of its highly skeptical workforce. Tensions throughout the surrounding Blackstone Valley culminate as rioting from the Great Textile Strike of 1934 push Depression-era changes that force Kendall to resolve matters in his own village.
Awards
- 2023 - Lighthouse Award - Best Feature Documentary - Winner
- 2023 - Emmy - Musical Composition/Arrangement - Winner
- 2023 - Emmy - Documentary - Nominated
- 2022 - TV Award - Best TV - Winner
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