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93 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
4085 votes

Matewan (1987)

Summary: A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Release Date: August 28, 1987

Genres: Drama, History

Director: John Sayles

Writer: John Sayles

Runtime: 2 h 15 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Cinecom Entertainment Group, Film Gallery., Goldcrest Films International

Distributor: Lorimar Home Video, Evergreen Entertainment, October Films, Artisan Entertainment, The Criterion Collection, Warner Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 4,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,680,358

88 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
66237 votes

October Sky (1999)

Summary: 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.

Release Date: February 19, 1999

Genres: Drama, Family, Biography

Director: Joe Johnston

Writers: Homer H. Hickam Jr.

, Lewis Colick

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures

Distributor: Universal Studios Home Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 25,000,000

Domestic: $ 32,570,685

International: $ 2,128,068

86 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
36333 votes

Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)

Summary: The fictionalized life of singer Loretta Lynn, a girl who rose from humble beginnings to become a country music star in the 1960s/70s.

Release Date: March 07, 1980

Genres: Drama, Music, Biography

Director: Michael Apted

Writers: Thomas Rickman

, Loretta Lynn

, George Vecsey

Runtime: 2 h 04 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Universal Pictures, Universal Pictures

Distributor: RCA (II), American Broadcasting Company (ABC), MCA Home Video, MCA/Universal Home Video, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (UPHE), DiscoVision

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 67,182,787

77 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
209993 votes

Cold Mountain (2003)

Summary: In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.

Release Date: December 25, 2003

Genres: Adventure, Drama, History

Director: Anthony Minghella

Writers: Charles Frazier

, Anthony Minghella

Runtime: 2 h 34 min

MPAA: R

Production: Miramax, Mirage Enterprises, Bona Fide Productions, Blossom Films, Castel Film Romania, Cattleya

Distributor: Miramax, National Broadcasting Company (NBC)

Countries: United States, Italy, Romania, United Kingdom

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 79,000,000

Domestic: $ 95,636,509

International: $ 77,377,000

75 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
21888 votes

Get Low (2009)

Summary: A movie spun out of equal parts folk tale, fable and real-life legend about the mysterious, 1930s Tennessee hermit who famously threw his own rollicking funeral party... while he was still alive.

Release Date: August 27, 2010

Genres: Drama, Mystery

Director: Aaron Schneider

Writers: Chris Provenzano

, C. Gaby Mitchell

, Scott Seeke

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: K5 International, Zanuck Independent, David Gundlach Productions, LARA Enterprises, TVN, Butcher's Run Films

Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Countries: United States, Germany, Poland

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 9,176,933

International: $ 1,345,578

75 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1676 votes

The Education of Little Tree (1997)

Summary: Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy who loses his parents during The Great Depression and begins living with his Indian grandparents and learning the Cherokee way of life.

Release Date: December 25, 1997

Genre: Drama

Director: Richard Friedenberg

Writers: Forrest Carter

, Earl Hamner Jr.

, Don Sipes

Runtime: 1 h 52 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Allied Films, Lightmotive

Distributor: Oldies.com, Paramount Home Entertainment

Country: Canada

Language: Italian

Domestic: $ 323,411

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
108312 votes

Lawless (2012)

Summary: Set in Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a trio of bootlegging brothers are threatened by a new special deputy and other authorities angling for a cut of their profits.

Release Date: August 29, 2012

Genres: Drama, Crime

Director: John Hillcoat

Writers: Nick Cave

, Matt Bondurant

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: The Weinstein Company, Yucaipa Films, Revolt Films, Benaroya Pictures, Annapurna Pictures, Red Wagon Entertainment, Blum Hanson Allen Films, Pie Films Inc.

Distributor: FilmNation Entertainment, The Weinstein Company, Anchor Bay Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 26,000,000

Domestic: $ 37,400,127

International: $ 18,004,080

74 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
2706 votes

Paper Clips (2004)

Summary: As a part of their study of the Holocaust, the children of the Whitwell, TN Middle School try to collect 6 million paper clips representing the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis, and grows to include millions of others killed.

Release Date: August 04, 2006

Genres: Documentary, War

Directors: Elliot Berlin

, Joe Fab

Writer: Joe Fab

Runtime: 1 h 22 min

MPAA: G

Production: Ergo Entertainment, The Johnson Group

Distributor: Virgil Films & Entertainment, Hart Sharp Video

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,121,744

International: $ 31,013

61 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
399 votes

Wrong Turn (2021)

Summary: Friends hiking the Appalachian Trail are confronted by 'The Foundation', a community of people who have lived in the mountains for hundreds of years.

Release Date: February 26, 2021

Genres: Thriller, Horror

Director: Mike P. Nelson

Writer: Alan B. McElroy

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: R

Production: Constantin Film

Distributor: Saban Films

Countries: United States, Germany

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,251,184

International: $ 3,578,742

54 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
1234 votes

Big Stone Gap (2014)

Summary: In a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, self-proclaimed spinster Ave Maria Mulligan finds her life shaken up and forever changed after learning a long-buried family secret.

Release Date: May 20, 2016

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Adriana Trigiani

Writer: Adriana Trigiani

Runtime: 1 h 43 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Altar Identity Studios

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 1,009,301

International: $ 3,503

52 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
43865 votes

Out of the Furnace (2013)

Summary: When Rodney Baze mysteriously disappears and law enforcement doesn't follow through fast enough, his older brother Russell takes matters into his own hands to find justice.

Release Date: December 06, 2013

Genres: Action, Drama, Crime

Director: Scott Cooper

Writers: Brad Ingelsby

, Scott Cooper

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: R

Production: Appian Way, Energy Entertainment, Red Granite Pictures, Relativity Media, Scott Free Productions

Distributor: Relativity Media, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 22,000,000

Domestic: $ 11,330,849

International: $ 4,330,705

45 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
9647 votes

Next of Kin (1989)

Summary: Truman, a Chicago cop, sets out to find the killer of his brother. Meanwhile, another of his brothers, Briar (a hillbilly) decides to find the killer himself.

Release Date: October 20, 1989

Genres: Action, Crime, Thriller

Director: John Irvin

Writer: Michael Jenning

Runtime: 1 h 48 min

MPAA: R

Production: Lorimar Film Entertainment

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 12,000,000

Domestic: $ 15,942,628

36 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience
30330 votes

Fire Down Below (1997)

Summary: A federal agent uncovers lucrative toxic waste dumps in Appalachia and must deal with the locals who want to keep their 'gold mine' secret.

Release Date: September 05, 1997

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Director: Félix Enríquez Alcalá

Writers: Jeb Stuart

, Philip Morton

Runtime: 1 h 45 min

MPAA: R

Production: Warner Bros., Seagal/Nasso Productions

Distributor: Warner Bros., Warner Home Video, CBS

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 60,000,000

Domestic: $ 16,228,448

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

Songcatcher (2000)

Summary: 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 Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the disco...

Release Date: July 27, 2001

Genres: Drama, Music

Director: Maggie Greenwald

Writer: Maggie Greenwald

Runtime: 1 h 49 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: ErgoArts, Rigas Entertainment

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 1,800,000

Domestic: $ 3,059,834

International: $ 111,439

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

America's Heart & Soul (2004)

Summary: Filmmaker Louis Schwartzberg hits the road to capture America's people and its natural beauty.

Release Date: July 02, 2004

Genre: Documentary

Director: Louie Schwartzberg

Runtime: 1 h 24 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Blacklight Films, Walt Disney Pictures

Country: United States

Language: English

Domestic: $ 314,402

0 - Rotten Tomatoes Audience

The Silence (2019)

Summary: When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews (Kiernan Shipka), who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek refuge in a remote haven.

Release Date: April 10, 2019

Genres: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi

Director: John R. Leonetti