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  • Mississippi Burning

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    Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the small town ways of his partner, a former sheriff.

  • Mississippi Masala

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    Years after her Indian family was forced to flee their home in Uganda, twentysomething Mina finds herself helping to run a motel in the faraway land of Mississippi. It’s there that a passionate romance with the charming Black carpet cleaner Demetrius challenges the prejudices of their conservative families and exposes the rifts between the region’s…

  • Banjoes, Fiddles & Riverboats: John Hartford and the General Jackson

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    Steamboatin’ stories from those who lived them, river history, authentic footage and stills, along with music and narration by John Hartford.

  • Maverick

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    Bret Maverick is a gambler who would rather con someone than fight them, and needs an additional $3k in order to enter a winner-takes-all poker game beginning in a few days. He joins forces with a woman with a marvelous Southern accent, and the two try and enter the game.

  • Tom and Huck

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    A mischievous young boy, Tom Sawyer, witnesses a murder by the deadly Injun Joe. Tom becomes friends with Huckleberry Finn, a boy with no future and no family. Tom has to choose between honoring a friendship or honoring an oath because the town alcoholic is accused of the murder. Tom and Huck go through several…

  • The Cure

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    Erik, a loner, finds a friend in Dexter, an eleven-year-old boy with AIDS. They vow to find a cure for AIDS together and save Dexter’s life in an eventful summer.

  • A Time to Kill

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    A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

  • Red Dirt

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    At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family’s matriarch, and his own dreams of leaving Pine Apple. With the arrival of a stranger, Griffith’s carefully constructed walls of shame and silence begin to come down and his life takes an unexpected turn.

  • My Dog Skip

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    A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of the boy, Willie, as he grows into manhood. Based on…

  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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    In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

  • Cookie’s Fortune

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    Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman’s death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.

  • The Straight Story

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    A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle has suffered a stroke and may not recover. Alvin is determined to make things right with Lyle while he still can, but his brother lives in Wisconsin, while Alvin is stuck in Iowa with no car and…

  • Secret Window

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    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

  • The Help

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    Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family’s struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan is a young white woman…

  • Mud

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    Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse.

  • Quarry

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    The story of Mac Conway, a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. As he struggles to cope with his experiences at war, Conway is drawn into a network of killing and corruption that spans the length of the…

  • The Sound and the Fury

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    A look at the trials and tribulations of The Compson siblings, living in the deep south during the early part of the 20th century.

  • Mudbound

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    In the post–World War II South, two families are pitted against a barbaric social hierarchy and an unrelenting landscape as they simultaneously fight the battle at home and the battle abroad.