Elaine McMillion Sheldon Movies

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its economic power wanes. The journey of a coal...

This documentary follows three women — a fire chief, a judge, and a street missionary — as they battle West Virginia's devastating opioid...

In the heart of America's opioid epidemic, four men try to reinvent their lives and mend their broken relationships after years of drug abuse.

U.S. citizens in more than 25 states are followed as they set out on the morning of the presidential election, throughout the course of the day,...

Part time capsule, part folk song, Phantom Cowboys follows three teenage boys as they approach adulthood in vastly different parts of the United...

Coal miners are dying from the resurgence of an epidemic that could have been prevented. FRONTLINE and NPR’s joint investigation revealed the...

In this unique portrait of motherhood, women who give birth while incarcerated at one of America's most notorious prisons struggle to stay connected...

A down-on-his-luck schemer from a West Virginia boxing family comes home to borrow money from his mother, a two-time world champion, and winds up...

McDowell County, situated in the coalfields of West Virginia, has experienced a great boom-and-bust since 1950. But despite the economic decline and...

An Irish-born American working at various points as a dressmaker and schoolteacher, Jones pivoted her focus to union and community organizing and...

Follows a group of recovering addicts working at Troublesome Creek Stringed Instrument Co. in Hindman, Kentucky.

For decades, the Navy base known as Sugar Grove Station provided jobs and a sense of stability for the residents of Sugar Grove, West Virginia. Now,...

An immersive project that examines the future of rural America through the residents of West Virginia's McDowell County.