Mississippi River Movies

  • 1976
    Ode to Billy Joe

    Ode to Billy Joe

    Ode to Billy Joe

    6.21976HD

    Set in sultry 1950s Mississippi, two teenagers grapple with surging hormones and the enticing promise of love, unknowing of the tragedy that looms...

    Ode to Billy Joe
  • 1998
    Down in the Delta

    Down in the Delta

    Down in the Delta

    6.31998HD

    A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live...

    Down in the Delta
  • 2000
    Red Dirt

    Red Dirt

    Red Dirt

    5.72000HD

    At only twenty, Griffith is struggling with the responsibilities of caring for his unwell aunt, grieving the loss of their family's matriarch, and...

    Red Dirt
  • 2005
    Catfish Blues

    Catfish Blues

    Catfish Blues

    02005HD

    Catfish Blues
  • 1948
    River Lady

    River Lady

    River Lady

    5.81948HD

    In the 1850s, in a logging town on the Mississippi River, a conflict between the people of a mill town and the lumberjacks who work downriver....

    River Lady
  • 1974
    Thieves Like Us

    Thieves Like Us

    Thieves Like Us

    6.51974HD

    Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist...

    Thieves Like Us
  • 1990
    Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending

    Orpheus Descending

    4.61990HD

    Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.

    Orpheus Descending
  • 1972
    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow

    6.71972HD

    A lonely farmer takes in a pregnant woman and looks after her. After she gives birth, tragedy strikes.

    Tomorrow
  • 1938
    The River

    The River

    The River

    5.71938HD

    This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental...

    The River
  • 1985
    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

    And the Children Shall Lead

    91985HD

    Mississippi in the early '60s is the setting for this story of a 12-year-old African-American girl who, along with her white friends, tries to ease...

    And the Children Shall Lead
  • 2015
    Thunder and Lightning

    Thunder and Lightning

    Thunder and Lightning

    02015HD

    The best team never to win the College World Series? It might have been the 1985 Mississippi State Bulldogs, who produced four Major League Baseball...

    Thunder and Lightning
  • 1935
    Mississippi

    Mississippi

    Mississippi

    6.91935HD

    A young pacifist, after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer,...

    Mississippi
  • 1984
    The River Rat

    The River Rat

    The River Rat

    6.11984HD

    On the lazy banks of the Mississippi, a young girl is reunited with her time-served but innocent father. But the reunion is tainted with the...

    The River Rat
  • 1980
    The Robber Bridegroom

    The Robber Bridegroom

    The Robber Bridegroom

    01980HD

    In a small Southern town, a plantation owner is duped into thinking a thief is a kind stranger. To repay the stranger for stopping a robbery, the...

    The Robber Bridegroom
  • 2026
    We Are the River: How the Mississippi Shaped Minnesota

    We Are the River: How the Mississippi Shaped Minnesota

    We Are the River: How the Mississippi Shaped Minnesota

    02026HD

    From her source at Lake Itasca, the Mississippi winds through Minnesota's prairies, valleys and cities—her constant presence easily taken for...

    We Are the River: How the Mississippi Shaped Minnesota
  • 1981
    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    71981HD

    The escapades of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, and the runaway slave, Jim, drifting down the Mississippi on a homemade raft, and their encounter with the...

    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  • 1920
    The Jack-Knife Man

    The Jack-Knife Man

    The Jack-Knife Man

    6.51920HD

    A dying mother left his child with an old man, but the village people want to take the child away from him because he is too old.

    The Jack-Knife Man
  • 2016
    The Hollow

    The Hollow

    The Hollow

    4.72016HD

    When a U.S. congressman's daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends...

    The Hollow
  • 1963
    The Pirates of the Mississippi

    The Pirates of the Mississippi

    The Pirates of the Mississippi

    7.11963HD

    European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River....

    The Pirates of the Mississippi
  • 2008
    Beneath the Mississippi

    Beneath the Mississippi

    Beneath the Mississippi

    4.32008HD

    A documentary filmmaker and her crew fight the elements and try to cope with their fears as they seek to understand the strange mystery of a flooded...

    Beneath the Mississippi