Southern Usa Movies

A woman adored by the people around her ultimately struggles to be happy with herself.

Spotlights the tradition-bearers of Southern foodways, presenting intimate portraits of men and women who grow, prepare and serve Southern food and...

A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.

After serving time in prison for attempted murder of the man who caused his wife's death, hard-luck loser Lonnie comes home to find that all of his...

To celebrate his eleventh birthday, a young boy selects his gift - little knowing that his choice will change the world.

In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just...

The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the...

New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.

A Kentucky slave (Davis) fights for his freedom from a cruel overseer whose mistress eventually joins him and the other slaves in their revolt.

Director Sam Pollard constructs a portrait of charismatic trailblazer Maynard Jackson, who became Atlanta’s first black mayor in 1973. The son...

The parallel lives of writer Truman Capote (1924-84) and playwright Tennessee Williams (1911-83): two friends, two geniuses who, while creating...

As three generations of a family in a small Texas town gather for a funeral, we learn the hilarious, sad, trashy truth of their sordid lives.

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

With a case of writer’s block, a children’s author escapes to small town Mitford for a change of scenery. She soon finds the heart and...

Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke...

Gay women living in the Deep South of the United States share stories of the bigotry, sexism, intimidation, and racism that confronts them in a part...

Sharecropper's son Marvin tries to help his community overcome poverty and ignorance.

An intimate insider’s journey to uncover buried truths and explore how the community in Monroe, Georgia has been impacted by the 1946 quadruple...

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

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injustices of racial segregation while on the road. The...