1870, juste après la guerre de Sécession, sur l'ultime frontière de l'Ouest américain. Seul au monde, Mattie Ross, 14 ans, réclame justice pour la mort de son père, abattu de sang-froid pour deux pièces d'or par le lâche Tom Chaney. L'assassin s'est réfugié en territoire indien. Pour le retrouver et le faire pendre, Mattie engage Rooster Cogburn, un U.S. Marshal alcoolique. Mais Chaney est déjà recherché par LaBoeuf, un Texas Ranger qui veut le capturer contre une belle récompense. Ayant la même cible, les voilà rivaux dans la traque. Tenace et obstiné, chacun des trois protagonistes possède sa propre motivation et n'obéit qu'à son code d'honneur. Ce trio improbable chevauche désormais vers ce qui fait l'étoffe des légendes: la brutalité et la ruse, le courage et les désillusions, la persévérance et l'amour…
Une famille américano-coréenne déménage dans une minuscule ferme de l’Arkansas, à la poursuite de leur propre rêve américain. Le cocon familial change complètement après l’arrivée de leur grand-mère sournoise, grossière, mais incroyablement aimante. Au milieu de l’instabilité et des défis de cette nouvelle vie dans les Ozarks accidentés, cette famille résiliente définit ce qu’est un foyer.
Deux amies, Thelma et Louise, frustrées par une existence monotone l'une avec son mari, l'autre avec son petit ami, décident de s'offrir un week-end sur les routes magnifiques de l'Arkansas. Premier arrêt, premier saloon, premiers ennuis et tout bascule. Un événement tragique va changer définitivement le cours de leurs vies.
Karl Childers, a mentally disabled man, has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, he is deemed fit to be released into the outside world.
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Melba Stokes, her mother Sheba and daughter Cheryl embark on a crime spree after their California beauty parlor is repossessed. Their destination is Arkansas, where the three generations of women want to reclaim the family farm.
Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck
After a band of drunken thugs overruns a small Indian Nation town, killing Reverend Goodnight and raping the women folk, Eula Goodnight enlists the aid of US Marshal Cogburn to hunt them down and bring her father's killers to justice.
The savage murders of three young children sparks a controversial trial of three teenagers accused of killing the kids as part of a satanic ritual.
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the case, contact the town's sheriff, Dale Dixon, to alert him of the fugitives' presence in the area. Underestimating Dixon, the criminals have no idea what they are about to face.
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be innocent.
A documentary-style drama based on true accounts of the Fouke Monster in Arkansas, Boggy Creek focuses on the lives of back country people and their culture while chronicling sightings of the monster.
When a small-town baseball coach gets the offer of a lifetime from a larger 6A high school, he uproots his family and leaves the only home he's ever known. But as a man of faith, he soon faces extreme opposition to his coaching methods from the school superintendent.
A backwoods, illiterate young woman from Arkansas battles to regain custody of her son from her estranged husband who feels she is an unfit mother. In the process, she falls in love with a struggling musician who helps her cause.
Earl Pilcher Jr. runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who died in childbirth; plus, he has a half brother Ray, in Chicago, she wants him to visit. Earl makes the trip, initially receiving a cold welcome from Ray and Ray's son, Virgil. His birth mother's sister, Aunt T., an aged and blind matriarch, takes Earl in tow and insists that the family open up to him.
A young mother from Arkansas is forced to travel across state lines in search of an urgent and necessary abortion.
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.