Southern Usa Movies

Summer 2017, a string of brutal police killings of young African American men has sent shockwaves throughout the country. A Black community in the...

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

Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.

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

A veritable master of the trade, con man Mordecai Jones has taken part in his fair share of scams. When he happens upon a young army deserter,...

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

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...

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...

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

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

An all-American story that explores the family dynamic when a prodigal daughter returns home.

When six college kids in a sleepy Southern town are assigned a group project to rediscover a moment in history, one of them sets in motion a horrific...

Helpless to stop a thief from stealing his father’s modest nest egg, Travis grows up blaming himself for his parents’ suicide. Becoming a...

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

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...

An intense insider's portrait of New Orleans' street celebrations and unique cultural gumbo: Second-line parades, Mardi Gras, Jazz Fest. Features...

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

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

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

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