Running for the Mountains
Feb 17, 2024 | IMDB 6
78 min Watch NowDocumentary
RUNNING FOR THE MOUNTAINS digs into West Virginia's history of 'patriotic sacrifice,' unearthing veins of dark money and dirty politics. The film tracks grassroots candidates and ordinary citizens' attempts to save their land, water, homes, and communities - calling out the pro-extraction politicians enabling destruction, including Senator Joe Manchin and his likely replacement, coal baron Governor Jim Justice. Appalachia is the proverbial canary in a coal mine; pay attention or pay the price.
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Rand University
The Appalachians
FLATWOODS
King Coal
The Devil and Daniel Johnston
The Children Must Learn
The Mothman of Point Pleasant
American Hollow
The Curse and the Jubilee
Hillbilly
Trouble Behind
The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
Whispers From Space
Search for the Mothman
Portraits and Dreams
Racing the Storm
Phototaxis
The End of an Old Song
Catfish: Man of the Woods
My Great Great Great Uncle Built Churches
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Rand University
IMDB 7.2 | Nov , 2014
Randy Moss has long been an enigma known for his brilliance on the football field and his problems off it. Sometimes there's even been an intersection of those two qualities. "Rand University" gets to that crossing by going back to where he came from - Rand, West Virginia - and exploring what almost derailed him before he ever became nationally known for his extraordinary abilities as a wide receiver.The Appalachians
IMDB 8 | Jan , 2005
Follows the 300 year history of the Appalachian people with interviews by scholars, musicians and writers.FLATWOODS
IMDB 5 | Apr , 2022
A documentary filmmaker uncovers an alien conspiracy in Flatwoods, West Virginia.King Coal
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 2023
The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal miner’s daughter exploring the region’s dreams and myths, untangling the pain and beauty, as her community sits on the brink of massive change.The Devil and Daniel Johnston
IMDB 7.7 | Mar , 2006
This 2005 documentary film chronicles the life of Daniel Johnston, a manic-depressive genius singer/songwriter/artist, from childhood up to the present, with an emphasis on his mental illness and how it manifested itself in demonic self-obsession.The Children Must Learn
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1940
Documentary profiling an Appalachian farming family struggling to scrape out a living. Linking education and economic development, The Children Must Learn suggests that better schooling, especially in agricultural techniques, would bring improvement.The Mothman of Point Pleasant
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2017
Learn the terrifying, true story about thirteen months that changed history! In November of 1966 a car full of kids encountered a creature unlike anything they'd ever seen before. In the weeks and months to follow, the monster – now known as The Mothman – was sighted again and again on country roads and around the state of West Virginia.American Hollow
IMDB 5.8 | May , 1999
This documentary follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor Appalachia. Matriarch Iree has given birth to 13 children, but only two have left to seek better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started their own impoverished families near home. Uneducated and unskilled, all are unemployed, and domestic violence and alcoholism pose serious problems. The filmmakers explore the family's relationships through interviews and footage of their daily lives.The Curse and the Jubilee
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2018
An intimate, arresting portrait of the cursed Appalachian mining town of Ivanhoe, Virginia. The film captures the town as it prepares for the annual Jubilee, a wild 4th of July celebration where families and neighbors let loose and triumph over daily hardships, industrial abandonment, and race.Hillbilly
IMDB 7 | May , 2018
A documentary that examines the cultural stereotype of the people of Appalachia and how that has affected America's relationship with its rural communities.Trouble Behind
IMDB 0 | Dec , 1991
During World War I, African-Americans worked on the railroad near Corbin, Kentucky. When whites returned from the war, there was conflict. Whites sought their former jobs and positions in the community. In 1919, a race riot occurred. Whites put the African-Americans on railroad cars and ran them out of town. In Trouble Behind, members of the Corbin community speak out on the issue. The filmmakers also interview former members of the Corbin, which at the time of filming had only one black family. Some Corbin residents express confusion as to why African-Americans don't move back. Others openly use racial epithets. Some young adults seem troubled by the racism, past and present. Others don't.The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
IMDB 6.7 | Apr , 2009
Produced by Johnny Knoxville and Jeff Tremaine for MTV and Dickhouse Productions, The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a documentary about the renowned West Virginia outlaw Jesco White and his eccentric backwoods family. In addition to getting in trouble with the law, the Whites, who live deep within Appalachia, uphold a time-honored dancing style, even as they contend with poverty, drugs and other issues. Alternately humorous and sad, the movie is an unflinching look at life on the criminal margins of rural mountain culture.Whispers From Space
IMDB 0 | Mar , 1995
A documentary noir about flying saucers, West Virginia and a man caught in the middle.Search for the Mothman
IMDB 1 | Jun , 2002
"Search For The Mothman" is a documentary that explores the unusual disturbances, odd sightings, bizarre occurrences, and strange eyewitness reports connected to a creature known as the "Mothman" (first sighted in the Point Pleasant, West Virginia area in the sixties). Strangely, the sightings and disturbances seemed to reach a peak with several area residents sharing the same nightmare of a river disaster. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge - spanning the Ohio River between Point Pleasant and Gallipolis, Ohio - collapsed into the frigid water (sending 46 people to their deaths). Many of those who lost their lives had reported seeing the Mothman. Perhaps most disturbing, there were no reported sightings after the bridge accident.Portraits and Dreams
IMDB 6 | Jun , 2020
Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed.Racing the Storm
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
Defending champions of the Master's league in the US Adventure Racing Nationals, team Odyssey sets out on the thirty hour race while facing ruthless weather conditions.Phototaxis
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2017
“Phototaxis” draws parallels between Mothman, a prophetic and demonized creature in West Virginia lore, and Narcotics Anonymous, the main treatment program in West Virginia’s addiction epidemic.The End of an Old Song
IMDB 10 | Jun , 1969
John Cohen, founding member of the ‘50s folk troupe the New Lost City Ramblers, started making films in order to bring together the two disciplines he was heavily active in: music and photography. The End of an Old Song brings us to North Carolina, and demonstrates the power of old English ballads sung with gusto while soused in a saloon.Catfish: Man of the Woods
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2025
1974 documentary about Clarence Frederick "Catfish" Gray a herbalist and folk doctor in West Virginia.My Great Great Great Uncle Built Churches
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2022
Bob Childress was the founder and builder of the famous "Rock Churches" of southwest Virginia, all established between 1919 and 1954. In 2022, Buford Jessup and his family set out to visit all seven of his great uncle's churches.