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- In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
- The story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.
- In 1940s Mississippi, two teenage boys and an elderly woman combine forces to prevent a miscarriage of justice and clear a black man of a murder charge.
- Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
- Three young sorority women try to find love with potential men, while worrying about changes in their way of life when integration begins at their college in 1957 segregated Alabama.
- An ignored, small-town librarian confesses to a murder she didn't commit to get attention.
- A recently-released prisoner and a troubled young boy share a pen-pal relationship, both connected by their past.
- Narrated by Academy Award nominee Eric Roberts, "Faulkner: The Past Is Never Dead" is about the Nobel-prize writer William Faulkner who has not only shaped the American literary canon but also America's conversations about race. Faulkner's "unflinching gaze" examines issues of race relations, equality, and civil rights-themes that speak powerfully to modern day. Born to a family of segregationists, Faulkner manages to confront his views about Black Americans and racial equality in his literary works. He includes more Black characters than his contemporary white writers and depicts them with a level of specificity unmatched at the time. However, how much was Faulkner able to escape his past? How should modern audiences approach a sometimes problematic subject? The film situates these questions in a rich telling of Faulkner story that combines historically accurate re-enactment scenes created using Faulkner's words, animated recreations of Faulkner's literary world and drawings, and conversations with Faulkner's family and the world's leading experts.
- Barlow is a hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, long-haired, and deeply unhappy aspiring writer who pulls a dozen rejection slips out of his mailbox every day while trying to get through his life with some semblance of purpose.
- 'Bi the Way' investigates the recent rise in the "whatever" phenomenon. Featuring interviews this documentary explores the changing sexual landscape of America in a bizarre and hilarious road trip that takes us from a swinging cage fighter in LA to an 11-year-old in Texas to a cheerleader-turned-runaway in Memphis. Following the personal stories of five young people, the film also grabs hold of the country's pulse on the topic.
- PERSONHOOD tells a different reproductive rights story - one that ripples far beyond the right to choose and into the lives of every pregnant person in America. Like a moment from the chilling "Handmaid's Tale," Tammy Loertscher's fetus was given an attorney, while the courts denied Tammy her constitutional rights. In this timely documentary, we see her sent to jail, and then forced to challenge a Wisconsin law that eroded her privacy, her right to due process, and her body sovereignty. Through her story, PERSONHOOD reframes the abortion debate to encompass the growing system of laws that criminalize and police pregnant women. At the intersection of the erosion of women's rights, the war on drugs, and mass incarceration, Tammy's experience reveals the dangerous consequences of these little-known laws for American women and families.
- Ashley is a college student who gets abducted by Samuel, a crazed religious fundamentalist. He attempts to force a change in Ashley as she struggles to escape to freedom.
- The life and works of Oxford, Miss. Fireman-turned-writer Larry Brown are examined in a unique documentary format that incorporates narrative film adaptations of three of his short stories: Samaritans, Wild Thing, and Boy & Dog.
- A week before they move across the country together, Craig lies to his girlfriend in order to go on his first road trip -- to the south. Alone.
- A decade after a tragic event, Jacob decides to return home to his small southern roots, only to find that the past is not really the past and that people may change but they never forget. Can you ever really go home?
- 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.
- Dr. Dax Wingo is a down-on-his-luck anthrozooologist who has long been discounted by the scientific community as a myth-chaser. But when six college students are found viciously murdered in the tiny town of Taylor, Miss., the clues left behind point to the mysterious Cajun werewolf lore known as the "Loup Garou". Together with his savvy graduate assistant Shad and a sassy undergraduate student, Dax joins forces with Government Operative Richard English to face off with whoever, or whatever, lurks in the dark woods of Taylor. But before the investigation can begin, Dax realizes he is being teamed with anthrozooological arch-rival, Dr. Doug-Clark Paulson, Russian big-game hunter Ernie Sokolov, and Dax's estranged wife, Claudia. The "team" is a powder-keg of emotions and criss-crossed interests as they set out to solve the mystery before the body count rises.
- On October 1, 1962 James Meredith became the first black student enrolled at the University of Mississippi. His journey to Ole Miss began with the state of Mississippi's denial and open defiance of the federal court's mandate of his admission. It ended on the night of September 30th as thousands of armed protesters rioted against the U.S. Marshals, Mississippi National Guard, and U.S. troops sent by President Kennedy. This is the incredible true story of one man's mission for equality and a state that would do everything in its power to stop him.
- When a murderer mystery play turns into an actual murder mystery, the actors must play it off in order to save their dying theater, while simultaneously attempting to discover the true killer.
- From inside a broom closet through a cracked door, an African American janitor listens and learns art in segregated Mississippi. 1949 Segregated Mississippi While driving through Ercu, Mississippi to start his new job as the first chairman of the University of Mississippi art department, Prof. Stuart R. Purser discovers the roadside artwork of twenty-six-year-old African American primitive artist, M.B. Mayfield (1923-2005). It is here an amazing journey begins. Purser, whose father was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, installs Mayfield as a janitor at the university with the sole purpose of teaching him. From inside the classroom's broom closet with the door ajar, the artist listens and learns. And it is through this narrow opening these two men become an important part of Southern history. Door Ajar captures the true essence of the South, told by those who grew up in a different era. Sometimes their yarns are jarringly awkward to listen to, but it's always earnest and from the heart. From a close family member to townspeople, to a civil rights campaigner, politician, judge, authors, documentary makers, and historians...Door Ajar records tales that sound like folklore but true. Good Will Hunting goes South.
- ''The University Greys: From Students to Soldiers'' - is a documentary describing actual, interesting, and personal details of the lives of a group of students and their families, students who were mustered together to become soldiers in the deadliest war ever faced by Americans. To describe this production as a ''documentary'' is unusually proper, due to the multiple souces of concurring public and private documentation that Micah Ginn utilized to substantiate his earlier short film, ''July''. Some of this history was ammassed by Ginn from alumni, faculty, and administration of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). Ginn's ''July'' source material was pivotal for the history proclaimed by Bill Paxton in this documentary, and ''July'' is also is the source of most of the period footage in this documentary. Ginn became intrigued about the ''University Greys'' while he was a student of the University of Mississippi, and his short film accurately portrayed the sentiment that is apparent in letters and other original 19th century documents, which were shared with Ginn by descendants of the family of Jeremiah Gage, the central character in both ''July'' and this documentary.
- A Jewish filmmaker from New York travels to the small town of Sinnaville, Mississippi for a week to shoot his graduate thesis documentary about a gay antique dealer and community theater actor causing a local and federal controversy with his gay mailbox.
- A documentary about the grassroots horror phenomenon, the filmmakers, the fascination and the brilliant terror.