Americana Movies

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

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...

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

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...

A portrait of the lives of a disparate group of patrons and employees at an American watering hole today.

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...

The teenagers of a rural community are confronted by the not-so-charming realities of their hometown on the eve of its annual beauty pageant.

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

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

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...

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...

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

People's Stuff is a document of six collectors of unusual objects. Creating an environment for storytelling, the subjects reveal inner dreams and...

A nostalgic, informative history of drive-in movie theaters, featuring extensive archival photographs and interviews with Leonard Maltin, John Bloom,...

2008 Concert by Levon Helm at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville.

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...

You Gave Me A Song offers an intimate portrait of old-time music pioneer Alice Gerrard and her remarkable, unpredictable journey creating and...

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...

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