Culture of The Southern United States - Film

Film

Many critically acclaimed movies have been set in the cultural background of the South. A partial list of these films follows – for a more complete listing of Southern cinema, see list of films set in the Southern United States.

  • Gone with the Wind (1939)
  • The Yearling (1946)
  • Song of the South (1946)
  • All the King's Men (1949)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • The Miracle Worker (1962)
  • To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • Scarface (1983)
  • The Color Purple (1985)
  • Mississippi Burning (1988)
  • Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
  • Steel Magnolias (1989)
  • Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
  • Forrest Gump (1994)
  • Ghosts of Mississippi (1996)
  • A Time To Kill (1996)
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)
  • Big Fish (2003)
  • The Notebook (2004)
  • Ray (2004)
  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
  • The Blind Side (2009)
  • The Help (2011)

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