89 Films & TV Shows Set In Alabama
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Respect
Michigan New York California Alabama The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sThe queen arrives. — The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her international superstardom.
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Roald Dahl's The Witches
Alabama The 1960sThey're real! — In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.
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The Rape of Recy Taylor
Alabama The 1940sShe spoke up — Recy Taylor, a 24-year-old black mother and sharecropper, was gang raped by six white boys in 1944 Alabama. Common in Jim Crow South, few women spoke up in fear for their lives. Not Recy Taylor, who bravely identified her rapists. The NAACP sent its chief rape investigator Rosa Parks, who rallied support and triggered an unprecedented outcry for justice. The film exposes a legacy of physical abuse of black women and reveals Rosa Parks’ intimate role in Recy Taylor’s story.
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Trading Paint
Alabama The 20th CenturyRacing is in their blood — A stock car racing legend is drawn back to the dirt track when his son, an aspiring driver, joins a rival racing team.
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Just Mercy
Alabama The 1980s The 1990sEvery generation has its hero. Meet ours. — The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
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The Death of Dick Long
Alabama The 2010sDick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
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Sword of Trust
Alabama The 2010sWhen Cynthia and Mary show up to collect Cynthia's inheritance from her deceased grandfather, the only item she's received is an antique sword that he believed to be proof that the South won the Civil War.
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The Hurricane Heist
Alabama The 1990s The 2010sThe storm of the century... the heist of a lifetime. — Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities.
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Green Book
New York Pennsylvania Ohio Indiana Iowa Kentucky North Carolina Tennessee Louisiana Mississippi Alabama Georgia The 1960sInspired by a True Friendship — Tony Lip, a bouncer in 1962, is hired to drive pianist Don Shirley on a tour through the Deep South in the days when African Americans, forced to find alternate accommodations and services due to segregation laws below the Mason-Dixon Line, relied on a guide called The Negro Motorist Green Book.
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Hale County This Morning, This Evening
Alabama The 2010sComposed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of race, while simultaneously a testament to dreaming.
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Before I Wake
AlabamaFear your dreams. — An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
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Trapped
Alabama The 2010sWhat remains of a woman's right to choose? — TRAP (Targeted Regulations of Abortion Providers) laws have been passed by conservative state legislatures in the US and clinics have taken their fight to the courts. Follow the struggles of the clinic workers and lawyers who are on the front lines of a battle to keep abortion safe and legal for millions of American women.
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Woodlawn
Alabama The 1970sOne Hope. One Truth. One Way (John 14:6) — Love and unity in a school torn by racism and hate in the 1970s.A gifted high school football player must learn to embrace his talent and his faith as he battles racial tensions on and off the field.
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A Dog Named Gucci
AlabamaJustice is a dog's best friend. — The story of a 10-week old puppy named Gucci who was hung by his neck, doused with lighter fluid, and set afire. Doug James, standing on his porch nearby, heard the puppy’s cries and ran to help. He scared away the thugs and at the request of Gucci’s 15-year-old runaway owner, took the dog in for the night. Thus began a 16-year odyssey of devotion and perseverance.
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Oculus
Alabama The 2000s The 2010sYou see what it wants you to see. — A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
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Selma
Alabama Georgia The 1960sOne dream can change the world. — "Selma," as in Alabama, the place where segregation in the South was at its worst, leading to a march that ended in violence, forcing a famous statement by President Lyndon B. Johnson that ultimately led to the signing of the Voting Rights Act.
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GirlHouse
AlabamaEnjoy the show. — In an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her life.
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Rage
AlabamaThree women find themselves in today's Los Angeles in the thralls of the myth of Medea.
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Jayne Mansfield's Car
Alabama The 1960sTorn Apart. Driven Together. — Alabama; 1969: The death of a clan's estranged wife and mother brings together two very different families. The scars of the past hide differences that will either tear them apart or expose truths that could lead to unexpected collisions.
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The Butler
Alabama California Georgia Tennessee District of Columbia The 1920s The 1930s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sOne quiet voice can ignite a revolution. — A look at the life of Cecil Gaines who served eight presidents as the White House's head butler from 1952 to 1986, and had a unique front-row seat as political and racial history was made.
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Twist of Faith
AlabamaJacob Fisher, an Orthodox Jewish Cantor and amateur songwriter who resides in Brooklyn, New York, witnesses the senseless murder of his wife and three children. Catatonic, Jacob walks out on his Jewish mourning ritual, leaving behind his Jewish garments, wallet and keys. Abandoning his identity, he wanders aimlessly, hoping somehow to understand his tragedy. Fortuitously, he lands in Brent, Alabama (population 2,500), where he is embraced by Nina, a single mother and the lead singer of a small gospel choir, her Uncle Moe and their gospel community.
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Space Warriors
AlabamaThe son of a retired astronaut competes to win a seat on the next space shuttle.
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Grace Unplugged
California AlabamaWould you give up what you need... to get everything you want? — A talented young singer and aspiring songwriter’s Christian faith and family ties are tested when she defies her worship-pastor father and pursues pop-music stardom in GRACE UNPLUGGED, a moving and inspiring new film that explores the true meaning of success.
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Hell and Mr Fudge
Alabama The 1970sA little story about a big lie — Hell and Mr. Fudge is an 2012 American drama film directed by Jeff Wood and written by Brian Phillip Stoddard. Based on a true story, the film stars Mackenzie Astin as Edward Fudge, an Alabama preacher who has been hired to determine the existence of hell.
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ChromeSkull: Laid to Rest 2
California Alabama GeorgiaEvil Is Only Skin Deep — The game of cat-and-mouse is on as Chromeskull’s assistant, Preston, scrambles to tie up the loose ends left behind after his deranged boss’s last killing spree. He finds that he likes taking care of business—maybe a little too much. One bloody mess leads to another and the bodies pile up in a visual feast of the most spectacular kills ever filmed.
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