Southern Usa Movies

Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in...

This warm 90 minutes documentary shows us unknown blues musicians from Mississippi. They play everywhere : on the streets, in dirty little bars, in a...

During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the...

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

In 1937, after seeing a photo depicting the lynching of a black man in the south, Bronx-born high school teacher Abel Meeropol wrote a poem entitled...

Jimmy is convinced he's found a way to release his inner demons without going against the will of God. He believes that on the day between Good...

"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...

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

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.

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

In January of 2016, a dozen members of the Memphis transgender community began meeting for a weekly story circle facilitated by Elaine Blanchard. The...