Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "cotton-picking"

1. 12 Years a Slave (2013)

R | 134 min | Biography, Drama, History

In the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free Black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.

Director: Steve McQueen | Stars: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt

Votes: 742,140 | Gross: $56.67M

2. Cold Mountain (2003)

R | 154 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

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.

Director: Anthony Minghella | Stars: Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Renée Zellweger, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 156,269 | Gross: $95.64M

3. Emancipation (2022)

R | 132 min | Action, Thriller

A runaway slave forges through the swamps of Louisiana on a tortuous journey to escape plantation owners that nearly killed him.

Director: Antoine Fuqua | Stars: Will Smith, Ben Foster, Charmaine Bingwa, Gilbert Owuor

Votes: 27,296

4. Places in the Heart (1984)

PG | 111 min | Drama

In central Texas in the 1930s, a widow with two small children tries to save her small 40-acre farm with the help of a blind boarder and an itinerant black handyman.

Director: Robert Benton | Stars: Sally Field, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Harris, Amy Madigan

Votes: 13,659 | Gross: $34.90M

5. The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Passed | 129 min | Drama

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.

Director: John Ford | Stars: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin

Votes: 100,101 | Gross: $0.06M

6. The Birth of a Nation (1915)

TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Votes: 26,378 | Gross: $10.00M

7. On the Road (2012)

R | 124 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance

Young writer Sal Paradise has his life shaken by the arrival of free-spirited Dean Moriarty and his girl, Marylou. As they travel across the country, they encounter a mix of people who each impact their journey indelibly.

Director: Walter Salles | Stars: Sam Riley, Garrett Hedlund, Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams

Votes: 43,326 | Gross: $0.72M

8. Respect (2021)

PG-13 | 145 min | Biography, Drama, Music

Following the rise of Aretha Franklin's career from a child singing in her father's church's choir to her international superstardom, RESPECT is the remarkable true story of the music icon's journey to find her voice.

Director: Liesl Tommy | Stars: Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Tituss Burgess

Votes: 17,870

9. Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)

PG-13 | 119 min | Biography, Drama

International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.

Director: Michael Carney | Stars: Greg Kinnear, Renée Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou, Jon Voight

Votes: 8,579 | Gross: $6.42M

10. The Land (1970)

130 min | Drama

A small peasant village's struggles against the careless inroads of the large local landowner. The Land shows why political oppression does not necessarily lead to a sense of solidarity among the disinherited.

Director: Youssef Chahine | Stars: Mahmoud Al Meleji, Nagwa Ibrahim, Ezzat El Alaili, Hamdy Ahmed

Votes: 2,460

11. Kentucky (1938)

Passed | 96 min | Drama, Romance, Sport

Romeo and Juliet story set amidst horse racing in Kentucky. The family feud of lovers Jack and Sally goes back to the Civil War and is kept alive by her Uncle Peter.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Loretta Young, Richard Greene, Walter Brennan, Douglass Dumbrille

Votes: 683

12. On Fertile Lands (1980)

115 min | Drama

The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.

Director: Erden Kiral | Stars: Tuncel Kurtiz, Erkan Yücel, Yaman Okay, Nur Sürer

Votes: 911

13. LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton (2001 TV Movie)

89 min | Documentary

This documentary follows a Mississippi Delta school district and a single Delta family as they struggle against the crippling effects of poverty in the wake of more than one hundred years of slavery.

Directors: Deborah Dickson, Susan Froemke, Albert Maysles | Stars: LaLee Wallace, Reggie Barnes

Votes: 245

14. Turksib (1929)

Not Rated | 57 min | Documentary

Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia... See full summary »

Director: Victor A. Turin

Votes: 462

15. Hearts in Dixie (1929)

Passed | 71 min | Drama, Musical

Nappus, an elderly farmer, resents the fact that his daughter Chloe is married to a lazy layabout named Gummy, who allows Chloe to do all the house and farm work he himself should be doing.... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Stepin Fetchit, Clarence Muse, Eugene Jackson, Dorothy Morrison

Votes: 34

16. The River (1938)

Unrated | 31 min | Documentary, Short, History

This documentary short film looks at the devastating and costly problems, including seasonal flooding and erosion of precious topsoil, associated with the Mississippi River system and promotes more Federal projects to remedy the situation.

Director: Pare Lorentz | Star: Thomas Chalmers

Votes: 670

17. Uncle Tom's Bungalow (1937)

8 min | Animation, Family, Short

In this parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Little Eva and Topsy try to rescue old Uncle Tom from the clutches of the evil slave-dealer Simon Simon [sic] Legree.

Director: Tex Avery | Stars: Elvia Allman, Mel Blanc, Billy Bletcher, Basin Street Boys

Votes: 292

18. Milton the Monster (1965–1967)
Episode: The Goofy Doctor Goo Fee/From Riches to Rags/The Pot Thickens

TV-G | 22 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

Gung Ho captures Horsey, mistaking him for Fearless Fly. Muggy-Do, working as a bellboy, makes a dishonest buck off a movie-star guest. Professor Weirdo tries to prevent his Aunt Hagatha from seeing Milton.

Director: Hal Seeger | Stars: Bob McFadden, Herb Duncan, Beverly Arnold