Appalachia Movies
- 2024

Running for the Mountains
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RUNNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS digs into West Virginia's history of 'patriotic sacrifice,' unearthing veins of dark money and dirty politics. The film...
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- 1983

Sprout Wings and Fly
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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,...
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- 1970

Where's The Beef
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A cynical detective investigates cattle mutilations in Appalachia, only to meet an extraterrestrial friend.
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- 2007

The Last Sin Eater
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In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of...
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- 2005

Loggerheads
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A troubled woman seeks out the child she gave up for adoption; a gay motel owner takes in a handsome drifter; and the wife of a preacher frets that a...
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- 2018

Hillbilly
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A documentary that examines the cultural stereotype of the people of Appalachia and how that has affected America's relationship with its rural...
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- 2000

Stranger with a Camera
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In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor came with a crew to eastern Kentucky to make a film showing people from all walks of life in the United...
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- 1991

Appalachian Journey
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Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). ...
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- 2017

Crick in the Holler
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Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student clashes with her family while investigating a...
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- 2025

Appalachian Dog
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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...
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- 2005

The Appalachians
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Follows the 300 year history of the Appalachian people with interviews by scholars, musicians and writers.
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- 1970

A Life Reimagined: The George Masa Story
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In 1915 a young, charismatic Japanese man with a mysterious past entered into the Appalachian culture of Asheville, North Carolina, is suspicioned a...
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- 1971

In Ya Blood
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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...
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- 2023

Picture Proof
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Examines the intergenerational impact of addiction by chronicling the love, labor, loss, and uncertainty of one woman’s struggle to live a life...
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- 1973

Tradition
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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...
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- 2024

The Clearing
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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...
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- 2004

Mountain Talk
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Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whose families have lived there...
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- 1970

A Ribbon In The Sky
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A documentary covering the planning, construction, and legacy of the Blue Ridge Parkway.
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- 2022

No Such Right: The End of Roe in Appalachia
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“No Such Right” is a snapshot of a region in crisis. In the aftermath of the stunning Dobbs v Jackson decision, doctors, lawyers,...
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- 1993

Jack and the North West Wind
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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
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