Movies: Southern usa

An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features live music from Professor Longhair, the Wild Tchoupitoulas, the Neville Brothers and more. This glorious...

Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the American South tries to cope with the lingering effects of the past and navigate their place in a count...

A stunningly-photographed, thought-provoking road trip into the heart of the poor white American South. Singer Jim White takes his 1970 Chevy Impala through a gritty terrain of churches, prisons, truckstops, biker bars and coalmines. Along the way ar...

After graduating from Harvard University, Peter Siner returns to his small Tennessee hometown, where he hopes to start a school for black children....

A prison-camp convict learns that his younger brother will soon be joining him behind bars....

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a barber shop, in big clubs. The film really captures the true faces of blues and shows us that this m...

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression....

A slice-of-life documentary following a visually-impaired married couple as they prepare for a trip to the grocery store....

Filmmaker Dan Murdoch meets America's most infamous supremacist group - the Ku Klux Klan - who say they are in the midst of a revival, with a surge in membership and cross lightings across the Deep South....

Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune....

A story of love, lust, violence and murder on a sadistic southern plantation during the slave era....

The 2020 U.S. election, January 6 insurrection, and transition of power are recast and retold in a radical transformation of Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof....

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled "Strange Fruit" that begins with the words: "Southern trees bear a strange fruit / Blood on the leave...

Jimmy is convinced he's found a way to release his inner demons without going against the will of God. He believes that on the day between Good Friday and Easter Sunday, when Jesus is “dead”, our sins are overlooked. Jimmy believes in... DEAD SATURD...

Lillian Smith: Breaking the Silence is a 50-minute documentary about the life and work of Georgia writer and activist Lillian Smith (1887 – 1966). This documentary explores her legacy and the life journey that led to her awakening, from her childhood...

On a road trip through the American South, two close friends experience a major radio malfunction, followed by curious encounters at an Alabama auto repair shop....

When one thinks of the American Deep South, the image of veiled Muslim students strolling the University of Alabama campus is the last thing that comes to mind. VOICES OF MUSLIM WOMEN FROM THE US SOUTH is a documentary that explores the Muslim cultur...

A movie by Jon Jost, who is the maestro of the American experimental movie world. The film tells us the strange incidents that happen in the ruined old village. Comparing to Jon Jost’s previous movies, this film has a clearer narrative and is more ex...

Short opera. A boy falls in love with a girl after an Appalachian prayer meeting, but her father wants her to go to the dance with a local shyster who the father thinks will bail him out of his money troubles instead....

This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South....