Best movies like America of the seventies. On the banks of the Mississippi

A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.

In the deep south during the 1930s, three escaped convicts search for hidden treasure while a relentless lawman pursues them. On their journey they come across many comical characters and incredible situations. Based upon Homer's 'Odyssey'.

Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farming and timber practices and their impact on impoverished farmers.

A Confederate officer travels to a wild Mexican border town to buy guns, aiming to keep up the fight against the Yankees - but who can he trust in this lawless place?

Owen Legate, a railroad official, comes to Dodson, Mississippi to shut down the local railway - the town's main income. But Owen unexpectedly finds love with Dodson's flirt and main attraction, Alva Starr.

Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.

In the past 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world's largest jailer, and destroyed impoverished communities at home and abroad. Yet drugs are cheaper, purer, and more available today than ever. Where did we go wrong?

Mark Fallon, with partner Kansas John Polly, tries to introduce honest gambling on the riverboats. His first success makes enemies of the crooked gamblers and of fair Angelique Dureau, whose necklace he won. Later in New Orleans, Mark befriends Angelique's father, but she still affects to despise him as his gambling career brings him wealth. Duelling, tragedy, and romantic complications follow.

Cops go under cover to track down a Mafia drug kingpin who has re-entered the country to sell "junk" to the prostitutes and "hopheads" on Bourbon Street. Edited from TV series N.O.P.D.

A young husband leaves his river shantyboat community in Pecan Point, Tennessee and travels to New Orleans in search of his runaway wife.

In this 1957 biography film of the jazz-great Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong, he and his band tour the world as American good-will ambassadors bring jazz at its best to the people of the world. Within the film, the life of Louis Armstrong is portrayed through the music. One of the outstanding scenes in this "biography/docudrama" shows blind songwriter W. C. Handy, with tears streaming down his face, as Armstrong, backed by Leonard Bernstein leading the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, play Handy's immortal "St. Louis Blues."

Northern lawyer John Reynolds travels to New Orleans to try and clean up the local crime syndicate based around a lottery. Although he meets Julie Mirbeau and they are attracted to each other, the fact that her father heads the lottery means they end up on opposite sides. When her father is killed, Julie becomes more and more involved in the shady activities and in blocking Reynolds' attempts at prosecution.

A gambling hall owner relocates from New Orleans to Chicago and entertains his patrons with hot jazz by Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Woody Herman, and others.

The story of community in the Deep South that is forced to deal with the struggles of ignorance, hypocrisy and oppression.

Sharks attack a fish rodeo on the Mississippi River, and it is up to a group of locals to stop them.

Swashbuckler about the adventures of pirate Jean Lafitte after he helped save New Orleans from a British invasion during the War of 1812.

Against the backdrop of President Trump's much-trumpeted wall, Reginald D. Hunter takes a 2,000-mile road trip along the US-Mexico border to explore how romance and reality play out musically where third-world Mexico meets first-world USA on this broken road to the American dream. Classic American pop and country portray Mexico as a land of escape and romance, but also of danger; Hunter explores the border music as it is today, much of it created by musicians drawn from the 36 million Mexican-Americans who are US citizens.

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin tells about the history of the founding, economics and social contradictions of a major center of the US steel industry - the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Robert Peston travels to China to investigate how this mighty economic giant could actually be in serious trouble. China is now the second largest economy in the world and for the last 30 years China's economy has been growing at an astonishing rate. While Britain has been in the grip of the worst recession in a generation, China's economic miracle has wowed the world. Peston reveals what has actually happened inside China since the economic collapse in the west in 2008.

Professor Valentin Zorin, political observer of the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting, talks about Joseph McCarthy, an American politician, a senator from Wisconsin, who held an extremely anti-communist position, who advocated an intensification of the Cold War with the USSR. The name of McCarthy is associated with a reactionary trend in the political life of the United States of the early 1950s, dubbed "McCarthyism" and consisted in the persecution of people only suspected of sympathizing with communism and not committing any crimes.

This film is about the administrative center of Georgia, the city of Atlanta, about the social and political problems of its inhabitants.

In the most that neither is in the middle of America, on a flat, flat as a pillar, stretching for hundreds of miles, Prairie Valley known as the "Great Plain", where the Kansas River flows into its more famous sister, the deep Missouri, is the city of Kansas City, that part of it that is attached to the right bank - is listed in the state of Kansas, the one that stretches on the left - in the state of Missouri. But the city is one...

In ancient times, when heraldry was in use and every self-respecting city considered it necessary to have its own coat of arms, it was placed on that coat of arms that was symbolic and lily for the city (fortress tower, deer head, scales of justice, sword or something else, something especially revered). To this day, it would not be worthwhile to preserve this custom and wonder what the residents of Los Angeles, the third largest city in the United States, would like to take as a symbol. They surely would - they certainly would be the California Highways. Even Americans accustomed to car herds, coming from other parts of the country to California, finding themselves in Los Angeles and its suburbs, marvel at the empty weaving of concrete and asphalt belts filled to the brim with gasoline carriages...

In the second film, the author tells about the struggle of blacks for the right to feel equal with all US citizens. Commentary of the mayor of Cairo, one of the cities in the American South, about the suppression of the rebels, about the most brutal methods of fighting African American protesters. Jesse Jackson's speech. Jesse Jackson's commentary on the Black Rights Organization. Comments by female residents of Jackson, the capital of Mississippi, on the degree of mental development of whites and blacks. A story about the Ku Klux Klan, about Robert Shelton - the head of the Ku Klux Klan. Speech by American singer and dramatic actor Paul Robson, his commentary. Shots of the Olympics, victories in the competition of black athletes. About reprisals against Negro organizations. The widow of the American writer Ernest Hemingway Mary and the American scientist Henry Winston speak out about support for African Americans and the fight against racism.

New York is the largest city in the modern world. In greater New York, together with the suburbs, in the 1970s, sixteen million people live, and in the city itself there are about ten million. Americans speak differently about New York - some argue that New York is not America, others, on the contrary, are convinced that this is the most American of all American cities. Apparently both are right...

American cities, unlike, say, European ones, cannot boast of a history of the past two millennia. There are no old palace fences, no deep antiquity.., but even in this row, Dallas, spread out on the Texas prairies, is considered a newcomer in America - an upstart without family and tribe.

Walk through one of the oldest cities in the United States - Philadelphia. "The City of Brotherly Love" or - Philly, as the Americans affectionately call it, is proud of its historical sights, because it was here that the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were signed.

In this episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin travels through one of the most famous and visited cities in the United States, the "pearl of the West Coast" - San Francisco. Many centuries ago, the inhabitants of ancient Hellas said that the one who was not in Athens was a blockhead, and the one who visited there and did not admire the city was a donkey, and the one who voluntarily left it was a camel. This is how Americans feel about San Francisco. Indeed, the city is very beautiful, steeply descending to the coast of the Pacific Ocean, it makes you admire yourself...

In the next episode of the series "America of the Seventies," political commentator Valentin Zorin talks about the capital of the United States of America - Washington. There are bigger and more beautiful rivers in America, if not the Potomac River meandering among the plains of the Atlantic coast of the country, but for many reasons: geographical, economic and political order, at the end of the 18th century, it is here, at the junction of the industrial north and the plantation south, not far from places where the waters of the Potomac disappear without a trace in the vast bulk of the Atlantic, a city named after George Washington was founded.

Boston. In those distant times, when virgin forests were still rustling on the site of today's Washington, when proud and free Indians gathered at the wigwams, on the site of which New York and Chicago, Atlanta and San Francisco are now piled, a settlement already existed here on the Atlantic coast of America. called by the people who founded it - Boston.

The USA is not only about skyscrapers and highways, street bustle, and car herds. America is fields and forests, deep rivers and endless expanses, hot south and snow-covered north, high mountains and vast valleys where ordinary Americans live, work, suffer and rejoice.

A young boy is forced to leave his family in the South and move in with relatives he doesn't know in New York.

"Trouble the Water" takes you inside Hurricane Katrina in a way never before seen on screen. The film opens the day before the storm makes landfall--just blocks away from the French Quarter but far from the New Orleans that most tourists knew. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, is turning her new video camera on herself and her Ninth Ward neighbors trapped in the city. Weaving an insider's view of Katrina with a mix of verité and in-your-face filmmaking, it is a redemptive tale of self-described street hustlers who become heroes--two unforgettable people who survive the storm and then seize a chance for a new beginning.

In 1961 Mississippi was a virtual South African enclave within the United States. Everything is segregated. There are virtually no black voters. Bob Moses, enters the state and the Voter Registration Project begins. The first black farmer who attempts to register is fatally shot by a Mississippi State Representative. But four years later, the registration is open. By 1990, Mississippi has more elected black officials than any other state in the union.