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In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them.

Two F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.

A wannabe blues-guitar virtuoso finds an old blues player and hopes he can teach him a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.

A woman escapes from a mental hospital, intent on getting back the life she thinks was stolen from her by her twin sister. Instead, she walks into her worst nightmare.

in an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.

Nearly a decade after the Civil War, a doctor in Vicksburg submitted a story to a medical journal that has since become legend.

True story of Anna Ella Carroll, unrecognized heroine of the American Civil War who assisted Lincoln as an unofficial cabinet member; she later devised the Tennessee River Plan that brought an early end to the war.

One of the unspoken aspects of the American Civil War is the story of the African-Americans who fought for the Confederacy during those four years that tore the country apart. In their grey uniforms, they marched into history as the Black Confederates. From the waters off the Carolina Coast to the prairies of West Texas, there are speculations that 365,000 African-Americans in the South gave all they had and sometimes their own lives to support the Confederacy. Without the contribution of hard labor by free men and slave alike, the Southern struggle against the Union juggernaut would have been much harder thought. Enduring the hot sun over the fields, black laborers harvested food and worked on railroad tracks so supply trains could get through. Working in equally humid factories and sweat shops, they toiled long hours for the Confederate war effort. They helped care for the dying and the wounded in hospitals. And for some, they followed other southern men and entered into the services of the Confederate Army and Navy. There were also state militias of black confederates that fought side by side with the rest of the armies. While most Northern states like Illinois prohibited blacks to serve in any militia, Southern states including Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee had these militias of African-Americans even before the war began. Louisiana particularly had a strong black militia tradition, going all the way back to the early 1700's. The office of the North Carolina governor, John W. Ellis, was flooded with requests to raise troupes of Blacks for both local and state protection. One request reported that three full companies could be easily raised in a small town called Scuffletown that was settled with freed mulattoes. In the summer of 1861, Ellis read a letter that fifty to a hundred mulattoes or freed men of color were willing to assist the North Carolina Army. At the same time, Tennessee government passed the very first petition that legislated the use of free black soldiers. Tennessee Governor Isham Harris stated that any Southerner, black or white, between 15 and 50 joined military service was to be paid $18.00 a month and received the same clothes and rations. Four months later, two black regiments (mostly engineers) along white confederate soldiers, marched through the streets of Memphis. All through the south, these militias guarded all the major cities, putting the citizens in the hands of the black troops guarding them. In the 1800s, Southern laws, such as in Virginia, allowed any white man to let any African-American to be treated as a white for all legal purposes. So it was perfectly legal for any Southerner to just sent one of his slave in his place in the Army while he stayed home. Nevertheless, despite long lasting strong beliefs that only the rich high rank officers brought their slaves, the bulk of those who had servants were privates. In fact, roughly sixty to seventy percent of body servants were with captains or lower ranked men. The body servants were the most important body of African-Americans for the Confederacy. Expanding in ages ranging from fourteen to sixty, body servants did any and every job assigned to them. They served as cooks, foragers, laborers and teamsters. While dodging bullets, these servants ran taking care of needed ammunition, shouldering extra guns and gunpowder, and on many occasions, took up a gun in the heat of battle and fought along the side of their masters. Before the war, body servants served on the farms and plantations but mostly worked closely with their masters' families. In some cases, they helped raise the young children with an deep fondness. The closeness with the men and women of the house, made for a tie of home and family. This tie was even more present as some servants grew up with the Master's children, forming an ambivalent friendship that lasted throughout both master and slave's life. And when the call of war came, sending young southern men to the battle lines, their servants went with them, feeling that same bond. And it was this bond which made the servants carry their masters back home whetever if they would wounded or dead. No matter how far from home, they made the trek back, half of the time sneaking behind enemy lines. Occasionally, even after the death of their masters, some servants would return to fight again with the army. When his master was killed, body servant, Aleck Kean made the choice to stay on as mess cook for the famed Richmond Howitzers. He was with the battery unit the surrender at Appomattox. At his funeral in 1911, among the many white southerners attending, were three members of the Richmond Howitzers. Individual accounts from the battle told of Black soldiers taking part of single-hand combat against the Federal Army, such as one Black Rebel who waited behind a tree while two Union soldier went by. He clubbed one with a pistol, then turned on the other, yelling for their surrender. Reports such like that prompted Northern newspapers to publish editorials and stories of African-American firing on and killing Union soldiers. The New Bern Weekly Press criticized that Black Confederates.."jeered at and insulted Northern troops, heave readily enlisted in the rebel army and at First Manassas, shot down Union soldiers with as much alacrity as if abolitionism had never existed." Similar disbelief was printed in the Indianapolis Star expressed by a letter written by a Union soldier when he stated..."A body of seven hundred Negro infantry fire on our men. The wounded men testify positively that they were shot by Negroes, armed with muskets. This is, indeed, a new feature in the war." The New York Tribune re-printed the letter with a headline in bold type - ATTACK ON OUR SOLDIERS BY ARMED NEGROES. Louis Napoleon Nelson, a slave followed the two Oldham boys that he took care when they were children . They left their Tennessean home and joined Forrest's Troops. Severing in every battle of Forrest's campaign, going from battle to battle in the western theater of the war, he got the chance to drop his ladle and pick up a rifle. After the war Nelson attended just about 39 annual Confederate veterans reunions. And like other Black Confederate veterans, he received a pension for his service. The only real evidence we have of their existence is a few confederate papers, rare photos and a battered stone obelisk that was erected in 1895 in the memory of ..."the slaves who, loyal to a sacred trust, toiled for the support of the army with matchless devotion and with sterling fidelity during the struggle for the principles of our Confederate States of America."

Joseph Biedenharn: The First Bottler of Coca-Cola On a summer day in 1894, Joseph Biedenharn, a candy merchant and soda fountain operator, had an idea that would reshape the soft drink industry. He took the popular fountain beverage, Coca-Cola, put it in bottles, and delivered it to rural areas outside of Vicksburg. It was the first time Coca-Cola had been sold in bottles. Mr. Biedenharn created a totally new concept of marketing the beverage and established the cornerstone of the independent network of franchise bottlers who now distribute bottled Coca-Cola all over the world. Born in 1866, Joseph Biedenharn was the eldest of eight children and, in his teens, became part of the candy business founded by his father and uncle. Later, he and his brothers Will, Harry, Lawrence, Herman, Ollie, Albert and sister Katy acquired franchises to bottle Coca-Cola in Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.

A man is shown his car, which he drives until it can be driven no more.

Stephen Brice, a young lawyer in Civil War-era St. Louis, falls in love with Virginia Carvel, the daughter of his benefactor. But she is loyal to the South and Brice is committed to Lincoln's cause. In the course of the war, their convictions separate them, and Virginia becomes engaged to her cousin Clarence Colfax, a Confederate officer. Brice becomes an officer under General Sherman, and eventually finds himself faced with the captured Colfax, facing execution for spying. Brice must decide whether or not to intercede in his rival's behalf.

Lincoln is given the way for the Union, for the first time, to defeat the Confederate States of America in the Civil War. Lincoln accepted this information from a woman by the name of Anna Ella Carroll. This is a true story. It is a little known fact that this woman helped the war effort but was never fully recognized for her contribution for saving the Union of America.

The prison transport containing GG crashes and he gets away. What GG doesn't know is that there's another killer named Mud Man, and that leads to a one-on-one confrontation with the occupants of the campground in the crossfire.

William Grant Still's opera, which remained unperformed for over 30 years after its composition, is produced here by "Opera South", a professional company in Jackson,Mississippi with the participation of college students from Jackson State College as extras. Based on a Southern folk tale, the opera depicts a young idealist who finds himself falling in love with a mystical spirit. The Orchestra is the Jackson Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard De Paur.

Miss Mississippi 2010, Sarah Beth James host the 2018 Miss Mississippi Pageant to see who will be crowned Miss Mississippi 2018.

The Documentary of OzBo takes you on a journey about a team of paranormal investigators hired by a museum to prove or disprove the legends of an evil clown named OzBo. When the investigation proves some of the legends to be true only a couple of the investigators escape the horror of OzBo himself. These survivors are interviewed in this documentary to inform you of their feelings of what happened during that investigation, thoughts, and more.

Doughboy Is fresh out of prison and has to make his way through the world learning how hard it is to be a felon trying to get a job.

Ringmaster: A Fallen Dream is a documentary on Twisted Carnival Studio's last movie project titled Ringmaster, which was suppose to be the sequel to The Documentary of OzBo movie. It details the issues on set and why the project never became the horror movie it was meant to be. Unreleased footage of the original film is included. Most of the original footage and all of the notes were stolen that contained the complete list of everyone who helped and participated in the original film.

Anna Florence did an Ancestry test and found out her father wasn't her father. Now she must search global to find who he is.

Treaven Mitchell lost his father in 2009 to an incredibly rare circumstance. He continues skating in honor of the bond he and his father formed while Treaven ran a skate shop inside his father's locksmith business.

Bull-headed Mike "Skrudge" Venice goes toe to toe with his competitors and local government, sparing no effort to land the city of Roanoke's hottest parking enforcement contract.

God's Architects tells the stories of five divinely inspired artist-architects and their enigmatic creations. The film details how and why these oft-marginalized creators, with neither funding nor blueprints, construct their self-made environments.

A young band has just finished recording their album when a new muse comes into their lives. They think all their prayers have been answered but when feelings develop between this mysterious new woman and the band's two leaders, two brothers, things start to get messy.