789 Films & TV Shows Set In North America During The 2000s
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Vox Lux
California New York 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇭🇷 Croatia The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sA twenty-first century portrait. — In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. By 2017, Celeste is a mother to a teenage daughter of her own and is struggling to navigate a career fraught with scandals when another act of terrifying violence demands her attention.
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12 Strong
🇦🇫 Afghanistan New York The 2000sThe declassified true story of the horse soldiers — A team of CIA agents and special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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Blockers
Illinois The 2000s The 2010sTeens out to have fun. Parents out to stop it. — When three parents discover their daughters’ pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
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American Folk
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Virginia Tennessee Arkansas Oklahoma New Mexico Arizona California Texas The 2000sThey shared their voices to heal a nation. — Two strangers, both folk musicians stranded in California, take a road trip to New York in the days after 9/11. A story about the kindness of strangers and the power of music.
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Night School
Georgia The 2000s The 2010sTeddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.
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American Animals
Kentucky New York 🇳🇱 Netherlands The 2000sYou don't know where the line is until you cross it. — Lexington, Kentucky, 2004. Four young men attempt to execute one of the most audacious art heists in the history of the United States.
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Arizona
Arizona The 2000sThe heat is on, but it’s a dry heat. — Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, the life of Cassie Fowler, a single mother and struggling realtor, goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder.
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Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
California The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sA funny, intimate and heartbreaking portrait of one of the world’s most beloved and inventive comedians, Robin Williams, told largely through his own words. Celebrates what he brought to comedy and to the culture at large, from the wild days of late-1970s L.A. to his death in 2014.
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The Mule
Illinois Texas The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sNobody Runs Forever — Earl Stone, a man in his eighties, is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he's just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. He does so well that his cargo increases exponentially, and Earl hit the radar of hard-charging DEA agent Colin Bates.
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I Am Paul Walker
California The 1990s The 2000s The 2010sExplore the life and legacy of actor Paul Walker, the Southern California native who cut his teeth as a child actor before breaking out in the blockbuster Fast and Furious movie franchise.
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Panic: The Untold Story of the 2008 Financial Crisis
New York District of Columbia The 2000sThis documentary looks at the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis and the efforts made by then Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Timothy Geithner, and Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke to save the United States from an economic collapse.
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The Looming Tower: Season 1
New York 🇾🇪 Yemen The 1990s The 2000sWhile Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda become a global threat, the rivalry between the CIA and FBI inadvertently sets the stage for the tragedy of 9/11 and the Iraq War.
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The Disaster Artist
California The 2000s The 1990sI did naaaht! Oh, hi Mark — An aspiring actor in Hollywood meets an enigmatic stranger by the name of Tommy Wiseau, the meeting leads the actor down a path nobody could have predicted; creating the worst movie ever made.
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A Dog's Purpose
Michigan Illinois The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sEvery dog happens for a reason. — A dog goes on quest to discover his purpose in life over the course of several lifetimes with multiple owners.
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The Yellow Birds
🇮🇶 Iraq Virginia The 2000sThere Are Moments That Test Us And Choices That Define Us — Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.
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Okja
New York 🇰🇷 South Korea The 2000s The 2010sA young girl named Mija risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend - a massive animal named Okja.
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I, Tonya
Michigan Oregon 🇳🇴 Norway 🇫🇷 France The 1990s The 1970s The 1980s The 2000sFitting in is overrated — Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises amongst the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.
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Lady Bird
New York California The 2000sFly Away Home. — Lady Bird McPherson, a strong willed, deeply opinionated, artistic 17 year old comes of age in Sacramento. Her relationship with her mother and her upbringing are questioned and tested as she plans to head off to college.
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Molly's Game
New York California The 2000sDeal with her. — Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
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Rough Night
Florida The 2000s The 2010sThe hangover will be the least of their problems — Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, they're ultimately brought closer together when it matters most.
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Batman and Harley Quinn
Louisiana The 2000sGotham City's heroes need a super-villain to fight for justice. — Batman and Nightwing are forced to team with the Joker's sometimes-girlfriend Harley Quinn to stop a global threat brought about by Poison Ivy and Jason Woodrue, the Floronic Man.
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The Son of Bigfoot
Oregon The 2000s The 2010sMeet the wildest family around! — Teenage outsider Adam sets out on an epic and daring quest to uncover the mystery behind his long-lost dad, only to find out that he is none other than the legendary Bigfoot! He has been hiding deep in the forest for years to protect himself and his family from HairCo., a giant corporation eager to run scientific experiments with his special DNA. As father and son start making up for lost time after the boy's initial disbelief, Adam soon discovers that he too is gifted with superpowers beyond his imagination. But little do they know, HairCo. is on their tail as Adam's traces have led them to Bigfoot!
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Last Flag Flying
New York New Hampshire Massachusetts Virginia Delaware The 2000sTheir last mission wasn't on the battlefield. — Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry "Doc" Shepherd, Sal Nealon and the Rev. Richard Mueller reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Doc and his old buddies take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire. Along the way, the three men find themselves reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.
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Crown Heights
New York The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sWhen Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
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Dolores
California The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sRebel. Activist. Feminist. Mother. — Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.
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