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- An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
- In 1950s Mississippi, teenager Bobbie Lee Hartley navigates her blossoming hormones as she is courted by Billy Joe McAllister, who is headed for tragedy.
- In 1955, after Emmett Till is murdered in a brutal lynching, his mother vows to expose the racism behind the attack while working to have those involved brought to justice.
- An ethnic Indian family is expelled from Idi Amin's Uganda in 1972 and lives in Mississippi 17 years later. The dad sues Uganda to get his property back. The grown daughter falls in love with a Black man.
- A Texas Ranger investigates a series of unexplained deaths in a town called Helena.
- A young man fresh out of law school tries to win a reprieve for his racist grandfather who is on death row.
- A Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.
- In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a trip to Memphis and a series of adventures.
- An anthology series that chronicles the civil rights movement as told by the women behind it.
- Documentary covering Bob Dylan's 1965 tour of England, which includes appearances by Joan Baez and Donovan.
- An ignored, small-town librarian confesses to a murder she didn't commit to get attention.
- Dramatic story of the influential Hunnicutt family set in Texas during the late 1950s.
- During a road trip, two UCLA coeds end up in a Southern prison farm on trumped-up charges brought on by a small town sex-crazed corrupt sheriff.
- A drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives.
- A filmmaker recounts the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi, while traveling to the places in which the events occurred.
- A UK television documentary film about the legendary Delta blues musician Robert Johnson.
- Short film exploring, blues legend, Robert Johnson and how he came to be so skilled on the guitar. It looks at how he learnt the blues so quickly, and how it's believed that Johnson sold his sold to Satan down at the crossroads.
- During the Civil Rights movement of the early Sixties, Emshwiller documented voter registration efforts by SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in Greenwood, Mississippi. Three decades later, this film was restored by Anthology Film Archives.
- Exactly 100 years ago... in the piney woods of rural Mississippi... a dream was planted... and Hope sprang forth.
- Soar over Mississippi where nature brings both riches and ruin and a musical movement sings the tunes of a complex past.