Компания момичета спелеоложки се отправят на поредното си пътешествие. Всичко върви нормално, докато не се спускат в пещерата, към която са се отправили. Внезапно каменно срутване им препречва пътя за връщане. На момичетата не им остава нищо друго освен да се отправят към вътрешността на пещерата в търсене на друг изход. Съвсем скоро обаче се оказва, че не са сами под земята. Из мрака на подземията бродят кошмарни създания...
Филмът се фокусира върху голямо семейство, живеещо в щата Вирджиния, което тайно се занимава с незаконен превоз и продажба на алкохол. Основните действащи лица са тримата братя Бондурант – Форест, Хауърд и Джак. Безкомпромисни в действията си, младите мъже оформят мащабен незаконен бизнес и се превръщат в основни мишени на полицейските служби.
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 the ancient remedies.
Бил Брайсън се завръща у дома си в САЩ след 20-годишно пребиваване във Великобритания. Съпругата му е медицинска сестра и се притеснява, че той иска да осъществи известния трек през Апалачите с дължина от 1000 мили. Тя се надява, че все някой негов приятел ще се съгласи да го придружи.
През 1920 г. в градчето Мейтуан, Западна Вирджиния, миньорите от местната въглищна мина се организират в собствен синдикат, за да защитят правата си. Като ответен удар компанията „Стоун маунтин“ обявява орязване на заплатите и замяната на всички, включили се в синдиката, с нови работници, основно италиански емигранти и цветнокожи. Двете страни отказват да отстъпят и положението ескалира.
Разположена дълбоко сред дивата природа на Апалахия, където вярващите боравят със смъртни змии, за да се докажат пред Бога, пастирската дъщеря пази тайна, която заплашва да разкъса нейната общност.
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 bind him to the past.
In seeking her own redemption from the one man of whom she is most afraid, 10-year-old Cadi Forbes discovers a secret sin haunting her community of Welsh immigrants in 1850s Appalachia.
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 gay couple has moved in across the street. All of their lives will intersect as Loggerheads subtly draws out their secret losses and desires.
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, "the dancing outlaw". As a boy Jesco was in and out of reform school and the insane asylum. To keep him out of trouble, his daddy D-Ray taught him the art of mountain dancing, a frenzied version of tap dancing to wild country banjo music. After his father's death, crazy Jesco dons his father's tap shoes and takes his show on the road.
A documentary that examines the cultural stereotype of the people of Appalachia and how that has affected America's relationship with its rural communities.
A film about America’s first serial killers. These brothers terrorized Kentucky and went across the state on a killing spree. The film is loosely based on the true story of the brothers. Filmed in historically accurate locations.
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 miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.
A determined housewife goes head-to-head with a $1 billion mining company after its negligent operation ruins her town's water supply.
A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.
Appalachian Journey is one of five films made from footage that Alan Lomax shot between 1978 and 1985 for the PBS American Patchwork series (1991). It offers songs, dances, stories, and religious rituals of the Southern Appalachians. Preachers, singers, fiddlers, banjo pickers, moonshiners, cloggers, and square dancers recount the good times and the hard times of rural life there. Performers include Tommy Jarrell, Janette Carter, Ray and Stanley Hicks, Frank Proffitt Jr., Sheila Kay Adams, Nimrod Workman and Phyllis Boyens, Raymond Fairchild, and others, with a bonus of a few African-Americans from the North Carolina Piedmont. Narrated by Alan Lomax. The Association for Cultural Equity’s Alan Lomax Archive channel on YouTube additionally streams outtakes from this film: other strong performances by Sheila Kay Adams, Dellie Norton, and Cas Wallin, Lawrence Eller, the Hickses, Algia Mae Hinton and John Dee Holeman, Tommy Jarrell, John “Doodle” Thrower, and Nimrod Workman.
Meadow Bridge is a coming-of-age story that follows Darcy, a fourteen-year-old girl growing up in a small West Virginia town in the late 1990s. It's a story about growing up on the edge of poverty and possibility - about trying to reach out into the bigger world, while wrestling with where you're from.
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, gregarious and generous, and this film shows him at his best, in fine fiddling form.
Chronicles the 50-year career of singer/songwriter Jean Ritchie, from Viper, Kentucky to the New York stage. Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, and her family and friends in Eastern Kentucky are among those interviewed. A 1996 KET production.
A documentary following an Appalachian family’s struggle with opioid addiction over several years.