Search Results: appalachia
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Movies (18)
Appalachia
Leo, a 17-year-old biker, and Raisa, the pastor's daughter of a small conservative village from Romania, fall in love at first sight, but communitarianism and religious fanaticism ...
Appalachia
A home-beach video in Apollachia of Rhodes
Appalachia 2050
t has been 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson sat on Tom Fletcher's front porch in Inez, Ky., and declared "War on Poverty," 49 years since the Appalachian Regional Commiss...
Wild Appalachia
An exploration of the Great Smoky Mountains in the southeastern US. Features a look at the flora and fauna of the region and includes profiles of the rangers who patrol its vast wi...
Electric Appalachia
Using found archival footage, the film offers a meditation on electricity and modernity in East Tennessee. Compiled by Eric Dawson (director at the Tennessee Archive of Moving Imag...
Strange Tales From Appalachia
Appalachian filmmakers join together to produce three horrifying, suspenseful, and strange tales. In "Pretty Girl", a young woman escapes a maniac kidnapper by fleeing into the App...
Christmas in Appalachia
Examines the meager holiday season for poor families in the mountains of Kentucky. Reporter, Charles Kuralt, talks with the people about the disappointments their children will hav...
Return to Appalachia
This documentary explores the lives of three adult sisters living in a remote holler in southern West Virginia. Sharon, a school teacher, has returned home after living elsewhere, ...
Appalachia: The Endless Forest
Exploring the Appalachian region and it's beauty.
Appalachia: Rich Land, Poor People
National Educational Television" Wednesday, November 13, 1968 on NET's Brand New NET Journal Week on 1960 RCA TV. The land is rich with coal, yet its residents are denied adequate...
Three Stories From Southern Appalachia
Three Stories From Southern Appalachia is an autoethnographic experimental documentary triptych that explores Appalachian folklore, history and myth-making.
The Pack Horse Librarians of Appalachia
This documentary tells the story of pack horse librarians - women hired by the Franklin Roosevelt's Work Progress Administration (WPA) during the Great Depression to travel on hors...
In Defense of Plants: Appalachia
In Defense of Plants: Appalachia
Sweet Appalachia: The Story of Delfest
"Sweet Appalachia: The Story of DelFest" is a feature-length documentary that explores the celebrated music festival and its transformative impact on a rural city in Appalachia. Jo...
Women of These Hills: 3 Cultures of Appalachia
Three women of Cherokee, Scots-Irish and African-American heritage are share their momiries of Appalachian history and experience.
No Such Right: The End of Roe in Appalachia
“No Such Right” is a snapshot of a region in crisis. In the aftermath of the stunning Dobbs v Jackson decision, doctors, lawyers, activists, and young people across Appalachia had ...
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
A Silent Fire: Uncovering Lost Black History in Appalachia
Macie Alford uncovers newspaper reports from 1880 about a mysterious fire that killed four Black children in the isolated Appalachian mountain community of Burke's Garden, Virginia...
TV Series (2)
Inside Appalachia
West Virginia Public Broadcasting series about the Appalachian region and peoples
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People is a four-part American documentary television series that premiered April 9, 2009, on PBS. The series explores the natural and human ...
