American Hillbillies Caught on Film
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1.
Different Drummer (1989–1991)
Episode:
Dancing Outlaw
(1991)
Not Rated | 29 min | Documentary
This documentary short, produced for West Virginia public TV's "Different Drummer" series, introduces us to Jesco White, a hard-living, tap-dancing Boone County resident whose repeated ... See full summary »
Director: Jacob Young | Stars: Wattie Green, Dorsey White, Jerry White, Jesco White
Votes: 547
2. Dancing Outlaw II: Jesco Goes to Hollywood (1999)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Jesco's trip to Los Angeles to appear in an episode of the Roseanne Barr show as an Elvis impersonating clog dancer is chronicled.
Director: Jacob Young | Stars: Jesco White, Tom Arnold, Roseanne Barr, John Goodman
Votes: 209
3. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
TV-MA | 86 min | Documentary
A year in the life of the White family, well known for Jesco White, the star of the "Dancing Outlaw" documentary.
Director: Julien Nitzberg | Stars: J. Parker Bazzle II, Big & Rich, Ponty's Camper, Derek Wayne Castle
Votes: 5,198
4. American Hollow (1999)
90 min | Documentary
This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100 years.
Director: Rory Kennedy | Stars: Bascum Bowling, Clint Bowling, Edgar Bowling, Iree Bowling
Votes: 477
5. Hillbilly: The Real Story (2008 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Documentary
The history and culture of the legendary inhabitants (the "hillbillies") of Appalachia.
Director: David Huntley | Stars: Billy Ray Cyrus, Popcorn Sutton, Tim Smith, Roddy Moore
Votes: 50
6. The Last One (II) (2008)
TV-PG | 58 min | Documentary
In a far corner of Southern Appalachia, moonshiner Popcorn Sutton makes one last batch of true bootleg whiskey. The craft of traditional distillation is revealed along with a lifetime of memories in the trade.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Popcorn Sutton, Floyd Sutton, Abigail Moore, Bill Milsap
Votes: 135
7. Popcorn Sutton: A Hell of a Life (2014)
85 min | Documentary, Biography
Legendary moonshiner Popcorn Sutton became a media sensation and inspired numerous documentaries, spin-off films and ongoing reality television projects before his untimely suicide in 2009.... See full summary »
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Popcorn Sutton, Jesco White, J.B. Rader
Votes: 18
8. Mountain Talk (2004)
TV-G | 57 min | Documentary
Mountain dialect, culture and identity are revealed by the true experts on Southern Appalachian culture--the people whose families have lived there for generations.
Director: Neal Hutcheson | Stars: Bertie Berleson, Gary Carden, 'Pink' Francis, Jim Tom Hedrick
Votes: 43
9. Deliverance (1972)
R | 109 min | Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Intent on seeing the Cahulawassee River before it's dammed and turned into a lake, outdoor fanatic Lewis Medlock takes his friends on a canoeing trip they'll never forget into the dangerous American back-country.
Director: John Boorman | Stars: Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty, Ronny Cox
Votes: 119,306 | Gross: $7.06M
10. The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002)
75 min | Documentary
The meaning of art itself comes into question in this documentary about Shelby Lee Adams' controversial photos of families in Appalachia.
Director: Jennifer Baichwal | Stars: Shelby Lee Adams, Chad Baker, Donnie Benton, Burley Childers
Votes: 237
11. White Lightnin' (2009)
Not Rated | 92 min | Biography, Drama
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... See full summary »
Director: Dominic Murphy | Stars: Muse Watson, Carrie Fisher, Wallace Merck, Stephanie Astalos-Jones
Votes: 1,851
12. Winter's Bone (2010)
R | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Director: Debra Granik | Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, John Hawkes, Garret Dillahunt, Isaiah Stone
Votes: 150,579 | Gross: $6.53M
13. Tobacco Road (1941)
Approved | 84 min | Comedy, Drama
Hillbilly family farm life in 1941 rural Georgia.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Charley Grapewin, Gene Tierney, Marjorie Rambeau, William Tracy
Votes: 2,572
14. Songcatcher (2000)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Music
After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in ... See full summary »
Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Janet McTeer, Michael Harding, Michael Davis, Michael Goodwin
Votes: 3,684 | Gross: $3.05M
15. Homemade Hillbilly Jam (2005)
Not Rated | 80 min | Documentary
A musical romp through the Ozark Mountains with a handful of rascally modern-day hillbillies.
Director: Rick Minnich
Votes: 52
16.
20/20 (1978– )
Episode:
A Hidden America: Children of the Mountains
(2009)
Unrated | Documentary, News
A Diane Sawyer special report on the 1/2 million people living in poverty in Central Appalachia.
Star: Diane Sawyer
Votes: 19
17.
NET Journal (1966– )
Episode:
Appalachia: Rich Land, Poor People
(1968)
60 min | Documentary, Drama, News
NET attacked what seems to be a continuing subject for telementaries, poverty in the coal mining regions of the southeast.
Director: Jack Willis
Votes: 10
18. God's Little Acre (1958)
GP | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their great-grandfather, but problems related to poverty, infidelity, unemployment, and booze threaten to destroy their family.
Director: Anthony Mann | Stars: Robert Ryan, Tina Louise, Aldo Ray, Buddy Hackett
Votes: 2,093
19. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)
PG | 103 min | Documentary
A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.
Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson
Votes: 6,633
20. Before the Mountain Was Moved (1970)
60 min | Documentary, Drama
A group of poor people in Raleigh County, West Virginia organize when strip mining is damaging their houses and community. They work to get the state legislature to pass some strong laws protecting citizens against coal mining interests.
Director: Robert K. Sharpe
Votes: 45
21. Oxyana (2013)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, News
The 'Hillbilly Heroin' epidemic that's slowly rotting the soul of rural America.
Director: Sean Dunne
Votes: 659
22. Stranger with a Camera (2000)
61 min | Documentary
A look at the reaction and aftermath of the murder of a documentary filmmaker in rural Kentucky in 1967.
Director: Elizabeth Barret
Votes: 103
23.
Frontline (1983– )
Episode:
Country Boys
(2006)
TV-MA | 360 min | Documentary, News
The story of two boys growing up from ages 15 to 18 in rural parts of the United States.
Director: David Sutherland | Stars: Chris Johnson, Cody Perkins, Jessica Riddle, David Stükenberg
Votes: 182
24. The Appalachians (2005– )
180 min | Documentary, Music
Follows the 300 year history of the Appalachian people with interviews by scholars, musicians and writers.
Stars: Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Rosanne Cash, Ricky Skaggs
Votes: 46
25. Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie (2008)
Not Rated | 63 min | Documentary
Through the experiences of two amateur Bigfoot researchers in Appalachian Ohio, we see how the power of a dream can bring two men together and provide a source of hope and meaning that transcend the harsh realities of life in a dying steel town.
Director: Jay Delaney | Stars: Dallas Gilbert, Wayne Burton, C. Thomas Biscardi
Votes: 246
26. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
PG | 124 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm, Phyllis Boyens
Votes: 20,517 | Gross: $67.18M
27. Where the Lilies Bloom (1974)
G | 98 min | Drama, Family, Romance
A family of Appalachian children live together in the backwoods so that they can stay together after the death of their widower father.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Julie Gholson, Jan Smithers, Matthew Burril, Helen Harmon
Votes: 1,058
28. Foxfire (1987 TV Movie)
PG | 100 min | Drama
Annie Nations and her husband Hector loved their life together in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but when Hector dies, Annie has to decide if she can handle the wilderness on her own.
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn, John Denver, Gary Grubbs
Votes: 442
29. October Sky (1999)
PG | 108 min | Biography, Drama, Family
The true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes.
Director: Joe Johnston | Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Chris Owen
Votes: 98,084 | Gross: $32.48M
30. Matewan (1987)
PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History
A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.
Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham
Votes: 8,917 | Gross: $1.68M
31.
American Patchwork (1990– )
Episode:
Appalachian Journey
(1990)
56 min | Documentary, Music
Exploration into the music, dance, songs, tales, lifes and general socio-etnic history of the Apalchian region.
Directors: Michael Dibb, Mark Kidel | Stars: Sheila Adams Barnhill, Phyllis Boyens, Vaughn Eller, Raymond Fairchild
Votes: 10
32. The Darlene Chronicles (1995)
57 min | Documentary
The filmed account of a poor woman and her family in the Appalachian region of Pennsylvania.
Stars: Darlene Musselman Myers, Teresa E. Hoover, Bonnie Myers, John Henry Myers
Votes: 21
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