After Coal
What happens when fossil fuels run out? After Coal explores the experiences of both Welsh and Appalachian coal-mining communities, profiling inspiring individuals who are creating a new future for these […]
HILLBILLY
Appalachia is as old as it is complex. Comprising Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Virginia, as well as parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Georgia, the region and its […]
Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader
Chairman Jones tells the story of director Anna Jones’s father, James Henry Jones, who was born on a former slave plantation in 1916. A self-educated farmer, he emerged as a […]
Coach Morgan Wootten and the DeMatha Legacy
Is Basketball Hall of Fame Coach Morgan Wootten the greatest high school basketball coach ever and possibly one of the best coaches in any sport at any level? As the […]
Coal Ash Chronicles
For years, independent investigative journalist Rhiannon Fionn traveled the country collecting stories about coal ash, America’s second-largest stockpile of trash. What she discovered is that it’s likely making people sick, […]
27 Months
Three Americans join the Peace Corps and set off to change the world. For 27 months Andy, Marcy and Kate try to help remote communities of Azerbaijan, Liberia and the […]
Always in Season
ALWAYS IN SEASON explores the lingering impact of more than a century of lynching African Americans and connects this form of historic racial terrorism to racial violence today. The film […]
A Chef’s Life
Chef Vivian Howard was making a name for herself in the New York City restaurant world when her father, a hog farmer from Eastern North Carolina, made her an offer […]
The Joseph Mitchell Project
Between 1938 and 1965, Joseph Mitchell became arguably the most influential writer in The New Yorker magazine’s history. Using fabled, lean prose, he wrote about the city’s slums, fish markets, […]
FINDING CROATOAN: THE UNTOLD TRUTH OF AMERICA’S OLDEST MYSTERY
Over 400 years ago, the first attempt at an English colony in the “New World” mysteriously disappeared off Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Now known as the “Lost Colony,” the tragic […]
