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1. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
PG-13 | 107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.
Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: George Clooney, John Turturro, Tim Blake Nelson, John Goodman
Votes: 331,230 | Gross: $45.51M
2. The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
Not Rated | 111 min | Drama, Music, Romance
Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight, in spite of their differences. He talks, she listens. He's a romantic atheist, she's a religious realist. When their daughter becomes seriously ill, their love is put on trial.
Director: Felix van Groeningen | Stars: Veerle Baetens, Johan Heldenbergh, Nell Cattrysse, Geert Van Rampelberg
Votes: 43,350 | Gross: $0.18M
3. The Trouble with Girls (1969)
G | 97 min | Comedy, History, Musical
Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small-town America.
Director: Peter Tewksbury | Stars: Elvis Presley, Marlyn Mason, Nicole Jaffe, Sheree North
Votes: 1,780
4. Taylor Swift: Mean (2011 Music Video)
4 min | Comedy, Family, Music
Follow the lives of different people who get bullied in different stages of their lives but eventually, ending up better than their bullies.
Director: Declan Whitebloom | Stars: Taylor Swift, Presley Cash, Amos Heller, Joey King
Votes: 651
5. Bluegrass (1988 TV Movie)
240 min | Drama
A woman tries to be successful in the male-dominated horse racing business. Intrigue, greed, power games and love trying to put stones in her way.
Director: Simon Wincer | Stars: Cheryl Ladd, Wayne Rogers, Diane Ladd, Mickey Rooney
Votes: 177
6. Down from the Mountain (2000)
G | 98 min | Documentary, Music
This is a documentary about the musical artists who performed the songs in the Coen Brothers' film O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Directors: Nick Doob, Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker | Stars: Ralph Stanley, Emmylou Harris, Evelyn Cox, Sidney Cox
Votes: 711 | Gross: $0.30M
7. Big Easy Express (2012)
Not Rated | 98 min | Documentary, Musical
Folk rock and bluegrass musicians Mumford & Sons, Old Crow Medicine Show and Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes travel together by train from San Francisco to New Orleans in the spring of 2011.
Director: Emmett Malloy | Stars: Ted Dwane, Ben Lovett, 'Country' Winston Marshall, Marcus Mumford
Votes: 1,020
8. The Hills Have Thighs (2008)
78 min | Comedy
Local Hillbilly Icon Daniel Boone Owen has gone missing in Appalachia. He was last seen facedown in his favorite watering hole, Scatterbrain's, and the theories behind his disappearance are... See full summary »
Director: James Bubba Cromer | Stars: Hance Oliver, Dona Ayers, Mona Lisa Johnson, James Bubba Cromer
Votes: 68
9. Festival (1967)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Music
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and ... See full summary »
Director: Murray Lerner | Stars: Joan Baez, Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Theodore Bikel
Votes: 700
10. High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music (1992)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Music
Traces the music and sounds from its Appalachian roots to the present. The rise, fall, and consistent revival of bluegrass chronicled through oral history and visual record.
Director: Rachel Liebling | Stars: Sam Bush, Curly Ray Cline, Pat Enright, Lester Flatt
Votes: 142
11. 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
12. Lost Highway (2003– )
Documentary, History, Music
From the BBC Press Office:
BBC TWO travels the Lost Highway and uncovers the story of country music on a journey to the heart of America and the music that has come to define it.
Randy Travis... See full synopsis »
Stars: Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Emmylou Harris, k.d. lang
Votes: 49
13. 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
14. The Ballad of Bering Strait (2003)
TV-G | 98 min | Documentary, Music
"The Ballad of Bering Strait" is a cinema-verite film following seven Russian teenagers who have come to America to become country music stars. Principle photography began in July 1999 when... See full summary »
Director: Nina Gilden Seavey | Stars: Alexei Arzamastsev, Natasha Borzilova, Andrei Missikhin, Sergei 'Spooky' Olkhovsky
Votes: 38
15. Bluegrass Country Soul (1972)
89 min | Documentary, Music
The sites and sounds of a legendary bluegrass music festival.
Director: Albert Ihde | Stars: Sam Bush, The Country Gentlemen, J.D. Crowe, Jimmy Martin
Votes: 22
16. The Kentucky Derby (1922)
Passed | 60 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Dirty work is afoot in old Kentucky when a rival decides that his horse will have a better chance of winning if the son of the owner isn't around, so he has him shanghaied onto a tramp ... See full summary »
Director: King Baggot | Stars: Reginald Denny, Lillian Rich, Emmett King, Walter McGrail
Votes: 39
17. Confederate Honey (1940)
Approved | 8 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Nett Cutler (Elmer Fudd) romances Crimson O'Hairoil in this send-up of Gone With the Wind (1939).
Directors: Friz Freleng, Cal Dalton, Ben Hardaway | Stars: John Deering, Jim Bannon, Bea Benaderet, Sara Berner
Votes: 261
18. How to Grow a Band (2011)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary, Music
Chris Thile is at a crossroads. His marriage has ended and his platinum-selling band, Nickel Creek, has gone on hiatus. But Thile, a prodigy who has defied expectations since he picked up the mandolin at age five, has a plan.
Director: Mark Meatto | Stars: Jerry Douglas, Chris Eldridge, Greg Garrison, Paul Kowert
Votes: 87 | Gross: $0.02M
19. Tyler Childers: House Fire (2019 Music Video)
4 min | Music
Official video for Tyler Childers' "House Fire" from the album Country Squire.
Director: P.R. Brown | Stars: Casey Campbell, Aidan Dacy Carberry, Tyler Childers, Sadie Wilking
20. 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
21. Red Ball Express (1976)
3 min | Animation, Short
A drawn on film train builds itself and takes us on a trip to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special.
Director: Steve Segal
Votes: 8
22. Live at the Quick (2002 Video)
93 min | Documentary, Music
Recorded in the summer of 2000, Béla Fleck & The Flecktones' Live At The Quick features an expanded version of the bluegrass-fusion band's lineup, featuring guest artists from the band's eighth album, Outbound.
Director: Marc Smerling | Stars: Bela Fleck, Jeff Coffin, Roy Wooten, Victor Wooten
Votes: 58
23. The Gatewood Movie (2009)
90 min | Documentary
The Gatewood Movie covers the life and times of marijuana activist, defense attorney, author, and perennial political candidate Gatewood Galbraith. The documentary is both a biography of ... See full summary »
Director: J.G.M. Davi | Star: Gatewood Galbraith
24. You Gave Me A Song: The Life and Music of Alice Gerrard (2019)
80 min | Documentary, Biography, History
At 84, old time music pioneer Alice Gerrard performs, teaches, and inspires the next generation while safeguarding groundbreaking moments of her past.
Director: Kenny Dalsheimer | Stars: Alice Gerrard, John Cohen, Phil Cook, Hazel Dickens
25. The Dance (2003)
77 min | Documentary
'The Dance' is a feature documentary on the remarkable life of 1960s champion prize-fighter, Billy 'The Kid' Roth, who has volunteered for forty-four years to serve in the prisons of ... See full summary »
Director: John Darling Haynes
Votes: 9
26. Big Rock Candy Mountain (2021)
85 min | Comedy, Musical
A merry band of misfits sneak into a theatre hoping to stay out of trouble, but instead find themselves front and center in this story about the power of music and second chances.
Director: Tristan Layne Tapscott | Stars: Bobby Becher, Ashley Brummitt, Shelley Cooper, Janos Horvath
27. Cowgirls and Synthesizers (2023)
81 min | Documentary
UK hit-maker and Eurovison songwriter Ricardo Autobahn follows the synthesizer pop duo Hyperbubble, described by Alternative Press as "the sonic equivalent of a truckload of Twizzlers", as ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Wallace | Stars: Estevan Arredondo, Ricardo Autobahn, Jeanette Barnett, Bis
28. The High Lonesome Sound (1963)
Not Rated | 30 min | Documentary, Short, Music
The poignant songs of church-goers, miners, and farmers of eastern Kentucky express the joys and sorrows of life among the rural poor.
Director: John Cohen
Votes: 32
29. Can (2005)
10 min | Short, Comedy, Sci-Fi
A soda can is struck by lightning, comes to life, and goes on a quest to find the woman who drank from it.
Directors: Mark Dennebaum, Sean Wathen | Stars: Mark Dennebaum, Kristen Willerton
Votes: 5
30. Good Evening Folks, We're the Pine Box Boys (2009)
88 min | Music
Director: Dr. Astronaut Body | Stars: Lester Raww, Possum Carvidi, Timothy Leather, Uncle Dodds
31. Helping Animals in the Bluegrass (2019)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Enjoy this documentary featuring some Bluegrass area nonprofits helping our furry friends. Starting with Spay Our Strays we'll learn how "Trap Neuter and Release" programs control the pet ... See full summary »
32. Gather at the River: A Bluegrass Celebration (1994)
Documentary, Music
Director: Robert Mugge | Star: Doug McCurry
Votes: 12
33. Nashville Unleashed (2014– )
22 min | Music
Nashville Unleashed is an American Television Concert Series, featuring professional songwriters from Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville Unleashed began its inaugural Television Season in ... See full summary »
34. Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music (1993 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Music
Features performances by Bill Monroe & the Blue Grass Boys, Lester Flatt, Emmylou Harris, Paul McCartney, the Osborne Brothers, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, John Hartford and a... See full summary »
Director: Steve Gebhardt | Stars: Bill Monroe, Roy Acuff, Kenny Baker, Lester Flatt
Votes: 42
35. Waiting for a Train: The Toshio Hirano Story (2009)
20 min | Short, Biography, Music
An engaging documentary short that examines the life of a Japanese emigrant, Toshio Hirano, who fell in love with American Bluegrass in Tokyo and followed his passion for the music for 30 years, to Appalachia, Texas, and beyond.
Director: Oscar Bucher | Star: Toshio Hirano
Votes: 17
36. Flatt and Scruggs Grand Ole Opry (1955–1969)
Music
Stars: Hylo Brown, Mother Maybelle Carter, T. Tommy Cutrer, Lester Flatt
Votes: 13
38. Nightsong (2014)
27 min | Short, Drama, Family
Nightsong tells the story of Kevin Hall, a music journalist who's devotion to his career has put immense strain on his personal life. Kevin doges his next interview to travel to Appalachia ... See full summary »
Director: Russ Faust | Stars: Jeremy Greenwell, John Adrian Riley
39. Something to Crow About (2015)
9 min | Documentary, Short, Biography
In the heart of Victoria's coal country in rural Australia, a group of 14 men find friendship and galvanise community through music.
Director: Sebastian Broadbent
40. Nonprofits & Nutrition (2016)
28 min | Documentary, Short
Enjoy this documentary featuring segments on Moveable Feast's food delivery service and Faith Feeds glean Kentucky program. We'll visit Seedleaf Farms and learn how they are nourishing our ... See full summary »
41. Herschel Sizemore: Mandolin in B (2013)
57 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Bluegrass legend Herschel Sizemore and his wife Joyce were both diagnosed with cancer on the same day in the Fall of 2011. On the evening of February 19th, 2012 bluegrass stars came out for... See full summary »
Director: Rick Bowman | Stars: Alan Bibey, David Grisman, John Lawless, Doyle Lawson
42. Billy Strings - Love and Regret (2022 Music Video)
5 min | Music
Director: Nick Ray McCann | Stars: Mary Booth, Travis Hudson
43.
The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode:
Mountain Wedding
(1963)
TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family
The Darlings ask Andy to help them deal with wild mountain man Ernest T. Bass, who wants the already-married Charlene Darling/Wash for himself.
Director: Bob Sweeney | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Denver Pyle
Votes: 422
44.
The Andy Griffith Show (1960–1968)
Episode:
The Darling Baby
(1964)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Family
The musical Darling family descends upon Mayberry again. This time they are looking for a husband for Charlene's new baby daughter. Things get complicated when they choose Opie and refuse to take no for an answer.
Director: Howard Morris | Stars: Andy Griffith, Ron Howard, Don Knotts, Frances Bavier
Votes: 336
45.
Justified (2010–2015)
Episode:
Riverbrook
(2010)
TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Raylan hunts an escaped prisoner who is determined to reunite with his ex-wife...and his stashed fortune.
Director: Michael Dinner | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts
Votes: 2,467
46.
Madventures Suomi (2020– )
Episode:
Road trip
(2022)
60 min | Documentary
Director: Tuomas Milonoff | Stars: Riku Rantala, Tuomas Milonoff, Talonpoika Lalli, Steve 'n' Seagulls
Votes: 10
47.
Sami Yaffa - Sound Tracker (2014– )
Episode:
Americana, Yhdysvallat, osa 2
(2014)
50 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Otso Tiainen | Stars: Sami Yaffa, Cochise Anderson, Billy Block, Cheetah Chrome
Votes: 6
48.
Normal for Norfolk (2016– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2016)
29 min | Documentary
The café and farm are under-performing, Desmond's latest idea is to fly a Bluegrass band in from the States to perform in his barn. Preparations are underway for Chloe's 100th birthday party.
Director: Sam Emmery | Stars: Toby Jones, Desmond McCarthy
49.
Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild (2013– )
Episode:
Missouri
(2017)
45 min | Documentary, Adventure
Ben travels to the Ozark Plateau in the U.S. state of Missouri to live with wilderness expert Bo, who gave up a life on the road with his bluegrass band to teach other people survival skills.
Director: Nicola Tremain | Star: Ben Fogle
Votes: 10