Appalachia Movies

  • 2005
    The Descent

    The Descent

    The Descent

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    After a personal tragedy, Sarah joins her friends on a caving expedition in the Appalachian Mountains. But when a rockfall traps them deep...

    The Descent
  • 2012
    Lawless

    Lawless

    Lawless

    7.0622012HD

    In 1931, the Bondurant brothers of Franklin County, Virginia, run a multipurpose backwoods establishment that hides their true business —...

    Lawless
  • 2015
    A Walk in the Woods

    A Walk in the Woods

    A Walk in the Woods

    6.12015HD

    After spending two decades in England, Bill Bryson returns to the U.S., where he decides the best way to connect with his homeland is to hike the...

    A Walk in the Woods
  • 1970
    Outer Dark

    Outer Dark

    Outer Dark

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    In Appalachia during the Great Depression, a young woman bears her brother’s baby. Her brother leaves the nameless infant in the woods to die,...

    Outer Dark
  • 2009
    White Lightnin'

    White Lightnin'

    White Lightnin'

    6.92009HD

    Deep in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia, where every man owns a gun and a moonshine still, abides living legend Jesco White,...

    White Lightnin'
  • 2015
    The World Made Straight

    The World Made Straight

    The World Made Straight

    5.52015HD

    In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would...

    The World Made Straight
  • 2019
    Them That Follow

    Them That Follow

    Them That Follow

    52019HD

    A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a...

    Them That Follow
  • 1983
    Sprout Wings and Fly

    Sprout Wings and Fly

    Sprout Wings and Fly

    5.81983HD

    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,...

    Sprout Wings and Fly
  • 2023
    King Coal

    King Coal

    King Coal

    7.52023HD

    The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal...

    King Coal
  • 2017
    Crick in the Holler

    Crick in the Holler

    Crick in the Holler

    02017HD

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

    Crick in the Holler
  • 2014
    Moving Mountains

    Moving Mountains

    Moving Mountains

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    A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply.

    Moving Mountains
  • 2018
    The Curse and the Jubilee

    The Curse and the Jubilee

    The Curse and the Jubilee

    02018HD

    An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual...

    The Curse and the Jubilee
  • 2005
    Loggerheads

    Loggerheads

    Loggerheads

    5.82005HD

    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...

    Loggerheads
  • 1974
    The Legend of Hillbilly John

    The Legend of Hillbilly John

    The Legend of Hillbilly John

    5.31974HD

    A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

    The Legend of Hillbilly John
  • 2020
    Spell

    Spell

    Spell

    6.4872020HD

    A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with...

    Spell
  • 2009
    Down in Number 5

    Down in Number 5

    Down in Number 5

    02009HD

    Southern Gothic tale of a coal miner pushed to his limits for the love of his son.

    Down in Number 5
  • 1940
    The Children Must Learn

    The Children Must Learn

    The Children Must Learn

    01940HD

    Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Link­ing education and economic development, The Children...

    The Children Must Learn
  • 2018
    Hillbilly

    Hillbilly

    Hillbilly

    72018HD

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

    Hillbilly
  • 1999
    American Hollow

    American Hollow

    American Hollow

    5.751999HD

    This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13...

    American Hollow
  • 2020
    Portraits and Dreams

    Portraits and Dreams

    Portraits and Dreams

    62020HD

    Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald,...

    Portraits and Dreams