Films

American Made [Movie]
The 2017 film American Made, starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, and Sarah Wright Olsen, is a fictionalized...
Antiquities (2018)
Antiquities is a 2018 American romantic comedy directed by Arkansas native Daniel Campbell. The film was writt...
Arkansas [Book and Movie]
The book Arkansas is a debut novel by John Brandon that was originally released in 2008 by McSweeney’s Publi...
Arkansas Judge
Arkansas Judge (1941) is the sixth in a series of eleven comedies made by Republic Pictures from 1938 to 1943 ...
The Arkansas Swing
Following success in radio and recording in the 1930s, the Hoosier Hotshots, a swing and jazz quartet that als...
The Barber of Little Rock
The Barber of Little Rock is a 2023 short documentary film that follows barber Arlo Washington, who founded a ...
Between Heaven and Hell
aka: Between Heaven and Hell [Movie]
aka: The Day the Century Ended [Book]
Between Heaven and Hell is an American motion picture about combat ...
Biloxi Blues
Biloxi Blues is a 1988 movie made entirely in Arkansas. Shooting locations included Van Buren (Crawford County...
Bloody Mama
In 1969, Roger Corman, who had found success directing and producing low-budget exploitation films for America...
Bootleggers
aka: Deadeye Dewey and the Arkansas Kid
The 1974 movie billed on its original posters as Charles B. Pierce...
Boxcar Bertha
Boxcar Bertha (1972) was the second exploitation film shot in Arkansas by B-movie director Roger Corman. The ...
Boy Erased
Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir Boy Erased recounts his experiences at the Memphis, Tennessee, “ex-gay” the...
Brubaker
Released in 1980, Brubaker is loosely based on the 1969 nonfiction book Accomplices to the Crime: The Arkansas...
Chrystal
Chrystal is a film written and directed by longtime Arkansas resident Ray McKinnon. The movie stars McKinnon...
Come Early Morning
Released in 2006, Come Early Morning is a movie written and directed by Joey Lauren Adams, best known for her ...
Come Next Spring
Come Next Spring was a 1956 dramatic feature film produced and distributed by Republic Pictures Corporation. T...
Command and Control
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a 2013 book by inve...
Daddy and Them
Daddy and Them is a comedy-drama written and directed by Billy Bob Thornton that stars Thornton and Laura Dern...
The Day It Came to Earth
The Day It Came to Earth is a 1977 horror/science fiction feature film directed by Arkansan Harry Thomason. It...
Devil's Knot
Mara Leveritt’s 2002 book Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three focuses on the facts of t...
Die Goldsucher von Arkansas [Movie]
aka: Massacre at Marble City
aka: Conquerors of Arkansas
Die Goldsucher von Arkansas (literally, The Gold Seekers of Arkansa...
Down in "Arkansaw"
B-movie studio Republic Pictures shot hillbilly situation comedy Down in “Arkansaw” (1938) in California. ...
Encounter with the Unknown
Encounter with the Unknown is a low-budget 1973 feature film directed by Harry Thomason of Hampton (Calhoun Co...
End of the Line
End of the Line is a film set in the fictional town of Clifford, Arkansas, that deals with working-class issue...
A Face in the Crowd
A Face in the Crowd was a 1957 movie drama based on the short story, “Your Arkansas Traveler,” written by ...
Fighting Mad
B-movie mogul Roger Corman was responsible for three films made in Arkansas. After directing Bloody Mama (1970...
God's Not Dead 2
God’s Not Dead 2 is a 2016 Christian-themed movie starring Melissa Joan Hart and directed by Harold Cronk. F...
God's Not Dead: A Light in Darkness
God’s Not Dead: A Light in Darkness (2018) marked the third installment in a popular franchise of Evangelica...
The Gospel of Eureka
The independent documentary The Gospel of Eureka (2018), directed by Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher, attrac...
Great Balls of Fire!
Great Balls of Fire! is a 1989 motion picture loosely based on pioneering rock and roll star Jerry Lee Lewis. ...
The Great Lester Boggs
aka: Hootch Country Boys [Movie]
aka: The Hard Heads [Movie]
aka: Redneck Country [Movie]
The Great Lester Boggs is a ninety-four-minute feature film directe...
Hallelujah
Hallelujah (1929), one of the earliest Hollywood feature films shot on location in Arkansas, was innovative in...