Southern Usa Movies

Racial tensions threaten to explode when a black man is elected sheriff of a small, racially divided town in the Deep South.

"Sordid Lives" is about a family in a small Texas town preparing for the funeral of the mother. Among the characters are the grandson trying to find...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

A vengeful Southern sheriff is out for blood after his wife is brutally killed by a pair of drifters. Low-budget film set in Georgia in 1953 and at...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

Schultze is an accordion player and newly without work. When the local music club celebrates its 50th anniversary, his taste of music changes...

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