Appalachia Movies

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

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

In 1915 a young, charismatic Japanese man with a mysterious past entered into the Appalachian culture of Asheville, North Carolina, is suspicioned a...

Set in the North Carolina Appalachians, Sprout Wings and Fly honors the fiddle playing of 82-year-old Tommy Jarrell of Toast, NC. Tommy was quirky,...

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

Meadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's...

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

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...

A film about America’s first serial killers. These brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a killing spree. The film is...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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