Americana Movies

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...

Two runaways trek from their city to the outer wilderness to dispose of a militant’s rifle, as their home reaches the verge of an armed...

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...

Many people have Route 66 on their bucket list: To ride it once, from Chicago to Los Angeles, on a Harley. Or in an old American road cruiser. And...

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.

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

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...

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

"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...

An intimate portrait of the acclaimed North Carolina band The Avett Brothers, charting their decade-and-a- half rise, while chronicling their...

Heading out west to her Grandma's birthday celebration, Lynda Barry and Kevin Kling record their adventures along the way.

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...

“Rt. 66” combines iconic images — many from Amarillo — with audio Lay collected on a long Route 66 roadtrip from Chicago,...

A young boy receives a strange book which sets him on a journey of self-discovery.

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

This musical short features four songs associated with the western United States.

In a contemporary reimagining of the American West, three young women - a snake hunter, a New York artist, and a rodeo queen - challenge the idea of...

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....

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...