The End of an Old Song (1969)

Baseado no livro da premiada americana Francine Riversa, "Último Espírito" conta a história de uma garota chamada Cadi Forbes (Liana Liberato) e a sua incessante procura pela remissão de um pecado. O pano de fundo da trama é a cidade norte-americana de Appalchia de dois séculos atrás, em 1850. A menina de 10 anos se sente responsável pela morte da irmã. Para tentar tirar este peso da consciência, sai à procura de um homem religioso que tem a capacidade de "absolvê-la" da culpa. Porém, enquanto busca a redenção, Cadi descobre um misterioso segredo que vai dividir sua família e a comunidade do vilarejo onde vive.

Um ano após um trágico acidente, algumas amigas vão explorar uma caverna. Uma delas, Juno (Natalie Jackson Mendoza), sem avisar as outras, as levou para uma caverna que nenhuma pessoa tinha explorado. Logo elas descobrem que talvez alguém tenha entrado ali, mas nunca saído vivo. Um acidente faz com que uma rocha se desprenda e as amigas fiquem presas na caverna. Com a saída bloqueada, elas passam a explorar o local, buscando outro meio de sair. Porém elas passam a ser perseguidas por estranhas criaturas, que se escondem na escuridão da caverna.

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.

Após passar duas décadas na Inglaterra, Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) retorna aos EUA em plena terceira idade. Para se reconectar com sua terra natal, ele decide caminhar junto com um antigo amigo do colégio pela Trilha dos Apalaches, que tem mais de três mil quilômetros. Pelo caminho, a dupla enfrenta a natureza, vários personagens e a si mesmo.

In 1967 Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor came with a crew to eastern Kentucky to make a film showing people from all walks of life in the United States. They finished the day by filming coal miners and their families in rental houses. As the filmmakers were leaving, Hobart Ison, the owner of the property, drove up and fired three shots, killing Hugh O'Connor. Elizabeth Barrett, from Kentucky herself, explores why this happened by trying to understand the people and culture of eastern Kentucky.

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Russian oil industry on the natives and the lands they inhabit.

Desta vez Larry Daley e seus amigos heroicos embarcam numa viagem sem precedentes para Londres para salvar a mágica que dá vida a todas as atrações do museu.

Década de 70. Em uma comunidade rural dos Alapaches ainda assombrada e dividida pelo legado do massacre da Guerra Civil, um jovem rebelde luta para driblar a violência que tenta prendê-lo a um triste passado e a um presente corrupto.

Educating the children of Appalachia.

During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans don't move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others don't.

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.

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.

“Tartarugas também choram” combina três histórias distintas, porém interligadas, que acontecem em diferentes partes da Carolina do Norte. É dia das Mães, 1999, e um jovem andarilho, interessado em tartarugas, inicia um relacionamento com George, dono do motel local. No dia das Mães, 2000, Elizabeth, mãe adotiva de Mark, se pergunta por onde andará seu filho sumido. É dia das Mães, 2001, quando Grace, mãe biológica de Mark, larga seu emprego para dar início a uma busca pelo filho que ela abandonara ao nascer. Essa busca terminará por unir as três histórias.

Larry Daley, o ex-guarda noturno do Museu de História Natural, agora é um sucesso empresarial. Mas, logo depois de ficar sabendo que seus amigos do museu foram enviados para o Museu Smithsonian, Larry recebe um telefonema desesperado de Jedediah, avisando que quatro dos maiores vilões da história voltaram à vida e planejam tomar o Smithsonian, e depois o mundo. Larry se junta a velhos e novos amigos para deter os planos diabólicos.

A roaming hillbilly, on a quest to defy the Devil, encounters several supernatural characters and does battle with his silver-stringed guitar.

This uneven and uninspired documentary of Africa is a collection from various stock footage. Female dancers in mod clothes dance on the Eiffel Tower in comparison to the primitive dances of native Africans. A lone runner trains for a marathon, and a few animals are shown in their natural habitat. Commentary and modern jazz and pop music help to make this seem much longer than 66 minutes.

One of the most important Kentuckians of the 20th century, Harry Caudill brought the story of Appalachia to national attention when his book “Night Comes to the Cumberlands” was released in 1963. The nonfiction account of Eastern Kentucky’s coal region, part history and part polemic, eloquently recounted the exploitation of Appalachia’s land and its people by business and government interests, and made Caudill a national spokesperson for his homeland. Harry Caudill spent his life advocating for Eastern Kentucky, with the aim of helping the powerless as well as securing the region’s unmatched natural resources for future generations. His work led to lasting government reforms for Appalachia, and his legacy remains a touchstone for activists today.

The grand opening dedication ceremony of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A five-year visual ethnography of traditional yet practical orchestration of Semana Santa in a small town where religious woodcarving is the livelihood. An experiential film on neocolonial Philippines’ interpretation of Saints and Gods through many forms of rituals and iconographies, exposing wood as raw material that undergoes production processes before becoming a spiritual object of devotion. - A sculpture believed to have been imported in town during Spanish colonial conquest, locally known as Mahal na Señor Sepulcro, is celebrating its 500 years. Meanwhile, composed of non-actors, Senakulo re-enacts the sufferings and death of Jesus. As the local community yearly unites to commemorate the Passion of Christ, a laborious journey unfolds following local craftsmen in transforming blocks of wood into a larger than life Jesus crucified on a 12-ft cross.

Set in West Virginia during the 2014 Elk River chemical spill, a first-generation college student clashes with her family while investigating a bizarre issue with their water supply.