Et år efter en forfærdelig trafikulykke med dødelig udgang beslutter 6 veninder sig for at mødes og kaste sig ud i et eventyr. Et eventyr, som går ud på at klatre under jorden igennem et bjerg. Midt inde i grotten sker katastrofen. Et kæmpe klippestykke falder ned og lukker for indgangen til grotten og de 6 kvinder er nu nødt til at kravle hele vejen igennem bjerget. Deres ekspeditionsleder Juno, som altid plejer at have fuldstændig styr på deres eventyr går til bekendelse og indrømmer, at denne grotte aldrig er blevet udforsket før og hun ved end ikke om der er en anden udgang.

Bedst som de tror at det ikke kan blive værre bliver kvinderne angrebet af nogle væsener, som lever under jorden. Det bliver en nervepirrende kamp på liv og død og venskaber ændres for altid...

Forbudstiden hærger i USA, men forbuddet mod alkohol bringer langt mere ondt end godt. De hårde tider har også ramt Bondurant-brødrene - og ligesom så mange andre har de stablet en god forretning på benene og tjener pænt på deres eget populære mærke af hjemmebrændt spiritus. Men forretningen trues, da Chicago-politimanden Charlie Rakes ankommer til Franklin County. Snart ligger alle under for den nådesløse og korrupte håndhævelse af loven, men Bondurant-brødrene vil ikke lade sig tryne...

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.

Forfatteren Bill Bryson beslutter sig for at tage på et sidste eventyr ud i den store vilde natur. Den eneste, han kan overtale til at tage med sig, er en gammel ven, han ikke har snakket med i 100 år. Sammen begiver de sig ud på The Appalachian Trail, en 3500 km lang rute igennem noget af USA's smukkeste natur. Det er en vanvittig tur, og de vil med stor sandsynlighed dø en grusom død undervejs, men måske kan de alligevel lære noget om at nyde livet, mens man kan? Altså inden de bliver spist af en bjørn eller falder ned fra et bjerg.

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief heroically fight the power represented by a coal company and Matewan's vested interests so that justice and workers' rights need not take a back seat to squalid working conditions, exploitation and the bottom line.

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.

A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at stake.

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.

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.

Da den 17-årige Travis Shelton går ind i den privatejede skov uden for hjembyen i North Carolina, opdager han en marihuanamark, som han vil kunne tjene mange penge på. Men Travis træder i en bjørnefælde og glider ind og ud af bevidstløshed, indtil han flere timer senere bliver fundet af Carlton Toomey - den snu og brutale bonde, som har sat fælden op for at beskytte sin jord. Pludselig konfronteres Travis med den underliggende ondskab, der hersker på en lokalegn præget af korruption og en frygtelig fortid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

You Gave Me A Song offers an intimate portrait of old-time music pioneer Alice Gerrard and her remarkable, unpredictable journey creating and preserving traditional music. The film follows eighty-four year old Gerrard over several years, weaving together verité footage of living room rehearsals, recording sessions, songwriting, archival work, and performances with photos and rare field recordings. Much of the film is told in Alice’s voice and via interviews with musical collaborators and family members who share the story of Alice and others chasing that high lonesome sound.

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.

A documentary following an Appalachian family’s struggle with opioid addiction over several years.