Appalachia Movies

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

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

Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whose families have lived there...

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

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

Appalshop’s first dramatic film, In Ya Blood is the story of a prototypical young man from Appalachia in the summer after his senior year in...

Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald,...

After a rookie cop's friend seemingly walks off the face of the Earth, he goes searching for him, leading him to a compound that believes you can...

Sam & Razz try to unload an invaluable treasure that Sam inherits after his grandpa's death. With the aid of their friends, Uru, a comic book...

A documentary covering the planning, construction, and legacy of the Blue Ridge Parkway.

A group of amateur filmmakers travels into the Appalachian wilderness to track down the elusive cryptid known as the "Bear-Man."

Whiskey-making, one of the oldest traditions in the mountains, has been illegal since the end of the 18th century. Tradition is a portrait of...

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

When people think of Appalachian music they often think of the banjo and classify it as bluegrass, but the music in the region is more diverse than...