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- An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
- A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
- The story of Ole Miss Rebel defensive back Chucky Mullins, who in 1989 became paralyzed after making a tackle against Vanderbilt player Brad Gaines. Chucky and Brad were forever linked by that play and a relationship was born out of tragedy.
- Comedian Tig Notaro travels across the country in order to put on a series of performances in the homes, back yards, barns, and basements of her most loyal fans.
- Two Hollywood filmmakers attempt to find Morgan Freeman in Mississippi and convince him to star in their next movie. When life gets in their way they soon discover what matters to them most.
- Four Muslim Arabs trek across the USA in an RV with a new take on culture clash.
- These sweet young fellas have now turned into young men, yet there is still danger lurking for them from their past - AND in their future. Time travel has consequences.
- A road movie featuring pregnant Chloe, who is forced to travel across country with her estranged father, Mac, and her geriatric dog, Thrasher. With thousands of miles ahead, they confront their pasts and bury ancient griefs.
- America's Blues takes a new angle on the Blues, focusing on, not only the musical impact it has had on all forms of Popular American Music, but also the influence it has had on art, fashion, language, film and racial equality.
- Delta Rising tells the story of Clarksdale and its importance to the blues, America's classical music. This story is told through the experiences of various musicians in and around Clarksdale, some world renown, some simply weekend players - but all deeply committed to this style of music and this extraordinary place. With Morgan Freeman guiding the journey we witness first hand what musicians like Mose Allison, Willie Nelson, Pinetop Perkins, James Super Chikan Johnson, James Montgomery, Ruby Wilson, Scott Bomar and many others feel about this Mecca, this home of the delta blues.
- 'Two Rivers' is the story of Karna, a man seeking truth and redemption along two mythic journeys, one of the past when Karna is twelve and in search for his father along the Ganges River in India, the other of the present when he is thirty years old and disenchanted with his life as a Chicago cab driver. When the present Karna is convinced by a blues musician to embark on a pilgrimage down the Mississippi River, he begins to see the parallel course of this journey with that of his past, while a certain prophecy attached to his birth begins to unfold.
- Documentary about American blues musicians.
- Mississippi's surviving juke joint scene and its music are explored by makers of award-winning blues documentary, "M for Mississippi." Includes all-new live blues performances at Red's juke in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
- On the day of her 10th birthday, happy-go-lucky Jenny discovers that she and her family are pawns in a cruel experiment that repeats over and over.
- Bobby Rush, a fifty-year veteran of the blues "chitlin' circuit" performs a set at the Ground Zero Blues Club in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
- Blues Road Movie traces the long epic of African American music and takes us on a journey to mythical places: from the banks of the Niger to New Orleans, going up the Mississippi through Memphis, to the skyscrapers of Chicago.The film ends with an unique encounter between African and American bluesmen. It shows that culture can overcome the worst barriers.
- Conspiracy. Terror. Boston Dean, an impressionable university student, has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization, which plans to assassinate a high government official with a time bomb. The twist: the high government official happens to be Boston's father, and that Boston himself is in charge of planting the bomb. It is duly delivered to him, the clock mechanism is set to explode within 24 hours, and - But we must not give away the ending. Visually daring and ominously absurd, "Clarksdale" will push you OFF the edge of your seat. It's that suspenseful.
- String, a blues player from the Delta, has a run-in with Myrtle Valene, an elderly woman who is trying to escape her past. Both characters look for a direction away from their past to travel, whether it be with each other or not.
- A delusional guitar novice intends to become the world's greatest slide guitar player...with the help of his bizarre new slide creation.
- Dick Earl Ericksen grew up in Moroni, Utah; a rural community located in East-Central Utah, by no means a hotspot for the Blues. One day his father came home from work with a cassette tape that was left in the lost and found, an album by the man called Muddy Waters. Dick put the tape in his boom box, and in that moment his life was changed forever.
- Purple Church tells the story of Brother Jimmy Russell. His life falls apart after leukemia claims the life of his devoted bride. Brother Jimmy is then tempted by the young and beautiful Ashley White, who was abused by her father as a child and then raped by her fiance's father. Ashley's tragic past leaves her empty and starved for attention, a perfect combination that leads her to skid row on a lofted stage in a popular Memphis strip club. The tale is one of redemption and spiritual consequence for both the handsome preacher and the lovely coed, whose salvation is Brother Jimmy's only reason for living.
- Follows two self-proclaimed blues fanatics -- Jeff Konkel and Roger Stolle -- on a week-long road trip the Mississippi Delta in search of the thriving underbelly of "real deal" blues music, characters and culture.
- The Mighty Quapaw takes a look at the Mighty Quapaw Apprenticeship Program, founded by John Ruskey of the Quapaw Canoe Company. in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Through the eyes of star apprentice, Jeremy 'Popeye' Hayes we are given the opportunity to see how the program can affect the lives of teens from distressed communities.
- Gregory Sabatino explores Boogie Woogie music as a bridge between the Blues and Rock n' Roll.
- A corporate promotional VHS tape from 1984 conceals a brain-altering signal which is said to grant increased health, longevity and psychic powers to those who watch it. View at your own risk.
- Take a trip to Ground Zero Blues Club in Biloxi, MS with the Wild and Fun Lunchbox Comedy as they give you Stand Up Comedy from some of The Gulf South's Rising Stars with Performances from Jeff Vance , Josh Watts, Delisia Nicholas, Brandon Haynes, Will Merrill, and Tee Ray Bergeron. Hosted by Ryan Rogers.
- Captures the first and last recording session at WROX in Clarksdale Mississippi since 1955, through the chance encounter of a man in search of reconciliation with his brother through the Blues.
- A Delta bluesman survives Mississippi's cotton plantations to find musical success in the North.
- An explosive comedy that explores the beauty, charm and wit of today's Southern belle.
- Discussion of the history and interpretation of the musical style known as the "delta blues". Documentary features blues artists discussing the background and growth of the blues, and its impact on other musical styles. Also discusses interpretation and preservation of the blues in the Mississippi Delta.
- Since the age of 9, Jacqueline has been playing guitar at legendary Mississippi nightclubs and juke joints where the blues were born. At 11, she signed a five album recording contract. Now a teenager, Jacqueline has abandoned the authentic blues tradition of the delta in order to find a voice of her own. Much to the dismay of a surrounding community, she chooses to find her identity within the music that she loves to create-rock 'n' roll.
- Vieux Farke Toure was born in Mali, just outside of Timbuktu, on the banks of the Niger River. He is the son of the late guitarist and multi Grammy Award winner, Ali Farka Toure. Ali is a legend in Mali and one of the most celebrated musicians to have come out of Africa. Against his father's wishes, Vieux chose the path of music. In 2006, he partnered with a young music producer from NY and recorded his debut album, just as his father passed. Rooted in the traditional music of his father and moved by popular sounds from around the globe, today he is at the cutting edge of world music and is reaching audiences worldwide.
- The son of a cotton plantation owner in the deep south of Mississippi, Floyd Graham grew up a racist. But through an encounter with an African American he knew in childhood, Floyd's views on race begin to change. A story of transcendence.
- Stephen travels through the basin of Old Man River, North America's greatest, from the Great Lakes to its Gulf of Mexico delta. Stephen starts in Louisiana, visiting New Orleans, site of Mardi Gras frivolity and superstition, touring the ruins of the Lower Ninth Ward and Louisiana's infamous Angola State Penitentiary. He then travels north along Highway 61, with stops in Natchez, Mississippi (talking with Morgan Freeman, owner of a local blues club), Arkansas (canoeing on the river), Iowa (discussing meditation at the Maharishi International University), St. Louis (talking with some homeless people living in an abandoned warehouse), Elkhart, Indiana (riding in a fire engine) and Detroit (riding with the designer of the latest Cadillac). In Chicago, he tours the South Side with blues legend Buddy Guy and gets roped into helping with a Second City show, with Chicago-style hot dogs after with two of the performers. Then on to Wisconsin for artisanal cheesemaking, a visit to a Hmong market in Minneapolis/St. Paul, and finally a bit of ice-fishing. Meditations about river-love, the restless nature of the American dream and immigration alter with visits to towns and cities in the vast Midwest plains and Minnesota sources. Included are the San Louis homeless, Vedic 'trans-meditational yoga' guru's Iowa commune HQ, second US economic city Chicago, Scandinavian and Hmong communities in the icy north.
- 2022–6.9 (9)TV EpisodeAn upstart mining town fuels the American war effort in both World Wars with its bountiful deposits of lead and zinc; the dusty remains of the mining efforts that put Picher on the map would condemn the city to abandonment years later.
- Soar over Mississippi where nature brings both riches and ruin and a musical movement sings the tunes of a complex past.
- 1968– 1h 30m7.1 (11)TV EpisodeVice President Harris discusses the situation in Israel and Gaza, and domestic issues; Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili discusses Georgia's EU bid; indoor air quality; singer Christone "Kingfish" Ingram and actor Morgan Freeman.