An action/thriller set in 1977 about four friends who reunite for a bachelor party to hunt for buried Prohibition money on Kentucky's Bluegrass Bourbon Trail, only to become ripped apart by greed, corruption, and murder.

Comin' Round the Mountain

1951

English

6.3

♡ 6

39%

Charles Lamont Director

Margaret Hamilton as Aunt Huddy

Harold Goodwin as Mountaineer

Hank Worden as Target Judge

Norman Leavitt as Zeb

Al Stewart and Wilbert are magicians doing a stage act when they run into Wilbert's cousin, Dorothy McCoy. They find out that Wilbert's grandfather, Squeeze-box McCoy, had treasure hidden in the hills of Kentucky, which they go to find.

Soldier's Girl

2003

English

7.8

♡ 11

89%

87%

Action

based on a true story

Frank Pierson Director

Lee Pace as Calpernia Addams

Dan Petronijevic as Collin Baker

Merwin Mondesir as Henry Millens

Vince Corazza as Lester

This true story, which takes place in Fort Campbell, KY, tells the heart-wrenching story of the life and tragic death of soldier Barry Winchell. His love for Calpernia Addams, a transgender nightclub performer, was misunderstood by his fellow soldiers and eventually led to his murder.

Harlan County U.S.A.

1976

English

8.2

♡ 9

Barbara Kopple Director

Robert Milicevic as Police Detective

Barbara Kopple as Self

Phyllis Boyens as Self

Hazel Dickens as Self - Singer

This film documents the coal miners' strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky in June, 1973. Eastovers refusal to sign a contract (when the miners joined with the United Mine Workers of America) led to the strike, which lasted more than a year and included violent battles between gun-toting company thugs/scabs and the picketing miners and their supportive women-folk. Director Barbara Kopple puts the strike into perspective by giving us some background on the historical plight of the miners and some history of the UMWA. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with New York Women in Film & Television in 2004.

We Believe in Dinosaurs

2019

English

6.6

♡ 2

91%

Clayton Brown Director

Williamstown, Kentucky, is home to the Ark Encounter – a “life-size” creationist museum filled with all of the creatures that traveled in Noah's Ark, including dinosaurs. With incredible access to the park leading up to its opening, the filmmakers expose the larger system behind the creationist movement, piecing together the many factors that have led to the museum presenting its information as historical fact, and the people who are fighting to set the scientific record straight. Amid a climate of science denial and a well-funded corporate behemoth, three Kentuckians (a local geologist, an ex-creationist, and an atheist activist) try their best to challenge the movement that is taking over their home state. Meanwhile, fervent believers work diligently to create the lifelike animatronics that will be on display in the Ark.

The Sun Shines Bright

1953

English

6.9

♡ 1

60%

John Ford Director

Chuck Hayward as Deputy

Trevor Bardette as Rufe Ramseur

Hal Baylor as Rufe Ramseur Jr.

Jack Kenny as Townsman

With the election approaching, a judge in a Southern town at the turn of the 20th century is involved variously in revealing the real identity of a young woman, reliving his Civil War memories, and preventing the lynching of an African youth.

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

1936

English

6.8

♡ 4

53%

railroad construction

Romance

romantic rivalry

Western

Henry Hathaway Director

Richard Carle as Ezra Tolliver

Sylvia Sidney as June Tolliver

Irving Bacon as Mailman

Frank Rice as Zeke Denker

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

Black Gold

1947

English

6.1

♡ 3

Phil Karlson Director

Raymond Hatton as Bucky

Robert Patten as Jockey

Darryl Hickman as Schoolboy

Jonathan Hale as Senator Watkins

A Native American man trains a horse for the Kentucky Derby.

The Fighting Kentuckian

1949

English

6.4

♡ 11

63%

George Waggner Director

Hank Worden as Abner Todd

Marie Windsor as Ann Logan

Dale Van Sickel as Brawler

Herman Hack as Militiaman

John Breen (John Wayne), a Kentucky militiaman falls in love with French exile Fleurette De Marchand (Vera Ralston). He discovers a plot to steal the land that Fleurette's exiles plan to settle on and aims to foil it.

Dreamer

2005

English

6.8

♡ 17

64%

78%

Action

based on a true story

parent child relationship

Sport

sports

John Gatins Director

Luis Guzmán as Balon

Kurt Russell as Ben Crane

Dakota Fanning as Cale Crane

Elisabeth Shue as Lily

Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.

Kentucky Kernels

1934

English

6.0

♡ 4

44%

George Stevens Director

Charlie Hall as Cigarette Stand Owner

Harrison Greene as Lawyer Aloysius T. Guilfoyle

Edgar Dearing as Policeman

George 'Spanky' McFarland as Spanky Milford

The Great Elmer and Company, two out-of-work magicians, help lovelorn Jerry Bronson adopt Spanky Milford, to distract him. When Bronson makes up and elopes, the pair are stuck with the little boy. But Spanky inherits a Kentucky fortune, so they head south to Banesville, where the Milfords and Wakefields are conducting a bitter feud.

In Country

1989

English

5.9

♡ 7

68%

35%

based on novel or book

Drama

kentucky

post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)

Romance

vietnam veteran

War

Norman Jewison Director

Bruce Willis as Emmett Smith

Joan Allen as Irene

Peggy Rea as Mamaw

Stephen Tobolowsky as Pete

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around with Tom, Earl, and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father.

Rust Creek

2018

English

5.9

♡ 44

85%

Jen McGowan Director

John Marshall Jones as Commander Slattery

Jay Paulson as Lowell

Hermione Corfield as Sawyer

Sean O'Bryan as Sheriff O'Doyle

When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.

Blow: The True Story of Cocaine, a Bear, and a Crooked Kentucky Cop

2023

English

5.9

♡ 4

Kris Ellison Baete Director

Andrew Thornton’s drug operation was one of the largest Kentucky and Tennessee had ever seen. Thornton would perish while attempting to parachute carrying African gold coins, weapons, thousands in cash and 75 pounds of cocaine. From the CIA to secret parties, Thornton is described as the James Bond of Kentucky by those who knew him. The documentary uncovers the true story behind the drug-sniffing bear and its rise to stardom. The film dissects the myths surrounding the ultimate party animal. Did Country Music legend Waylon Jennings buy the taxidermied bear? How much cocaine did it eat? And is the actual drug-eating bear now on display in a Kentucky store?