Appalachia Movies

The Appalachian Investigators of Mysterious Sightings (A.I.M.S.) team comes together to reminisce and celebrate the life of their founder, John...

In 2010, The Carolina Chocolate Drops stunned the music world, taking home the Traditional Folk Album Grammy for their debut album, Genuine Negro...

Two imbeciles — a B-list country music star and his friend, a manipulative Pentecostal preacher — are relentlessly pursued across...

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student clashes with her family while investigating a...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal...

It’s a classic David vs. Goliath scenario: in the oil and gas strongholds of Louisiana's River Parishes and Appalachia's Rust Belt, where false...

A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply.

A cynical detective investigates cattle mutilations in Appalachia, only to meet an extraterrestrial friend.

Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

Follows the 300 year history of the Appalachian people with interviews by scholars, musicians and writers.

Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.

Appalachia, 1946: a seamstress welcomes home her tailor husband to find they are not the team they were. Trying to stitch their old life back...

A storm that has been continuing to swell over Appalachia for 5 months with no sign of stopping. While journalist and her colleague are on route to...

In July of 2019 the Blackjewel coal company announced it was declaring bankruptcy. Miners were told to stop working mid shift, and their last...

Oceana, West Virginia—known as “Oxyana” after its residents’ epidemic abuse of OxyContin—is a tragically real example...

John Cohen, founding member of the ‘50s folk troupe the New Lost City Ramblers, started making films in order to bring together the two...

Jack sets off to stop the North West Wind and discovers a world of danger and magic in this down-home, funky tale from the Appalachian mountains

RUNNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS digs into West Virginia's history of 'patriotic sacrifice,' unearthing veins of dark money and dirty politics. The film...

Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all established between 1919 and 1954. In 2022, Buford...

When a troubled young woman returns to her childhood home in rural East Tennessee, an aging farmer must confront a familiar cycle of violence and...