Americana Movies

A portrait of the lives of a disparate group of patrons and employees at an American watering hole today.

Fifteen towns in North America bear the name of the Dutch capital. From east to west, from New York, once Nieuw Amsterdam, to California, Rogier van...

The music speaks for itself in this performance documentary that highlights some of the biggest names within the country-folk scene in Texas and...

A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photographs and interviews with Leonard Maltin, John Bloom,...

Transcendental Blues is an album released in 2000 by Steve Earle. It features Sharon Shannon on the track "The Galway Girl". The album was nominated...

2008 Concert by Levon Helm at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

Lightnin' and Mary Jones are co-owners of a hotel built right on a state border, used by divorcing wives so they can pretend to be in California...

Follow Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, and Townes Van Zandt as they rise from obscurity to reverence: Guy, the Pancho to Van Zandt’s Lefty,...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.

Bigfoot: America's Abominable Snowman focuses on the legend of Bigfoot/Sasquatch throughout North America. Dr. John Napier acts as host and analyst...

This wasn’t meant to be a documentary. I’d always had an appreciation for the American South, but I’d never actually experienced it...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Girl of the Limberlost is a 1924 American silent film, produced by Gene Stratton-Porter and directed by...

Narrator John Nesbitt laments the disappearance of the rural one-room schoolhouse in America. He reminisces about his own days as a student in such a...

This short documentary follows artist Trey Abdella as he smashes cherub angels and assembles a new body of work inspired by the idea of a...

A guitar-playing drifter helps a rancher's granddaughter find her true calling. They soon find themselves in the middle of a land war driven by...

"The Star-Spangled Banner" is known by all, treasured for its powerful melody and stirring lyrics. And yet, only about 40% of U.S. citizens know all...

A husband makes fun of his wife's theatrical aspirations when she agrees to appear in a local production. When she begins to neglect him, he decides...

Award-winning comedian Rich Hall takes a country music journey from Tennessee to Texas to look at the movements and artists that don't get as much...

A short experimental documentary is filmed at the last drive-in movie theater in Los Angeles, located in a desolate area called the City of Industry....

Charlie Hastings, after vanishing during the Summer of 1993, returns home two years later. His parents, Maggie and Forest, must decide if this...