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Kanopy
73
7.0
/690/
63
/13/
68
/15/
3.7
/804/
85
/55/
72
/26/
79
/21/

Bright Leaves (2004)
Ross McElwee travels through the North Carolina tobacco belt in search of the ancient southern traditions associated with tobacco growing and use, while comparing his filmmaking to commercial cinema, represented by Bright Leaf, a melodrama directed by Michael Curtiz in 1950, starring Gary Cooper, apparently based on the life of his great-grandfather.
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Kanopy
78
66
7.2
/2885/
69
/81/
68
/37/
3.9
/5005/
100
/12/
85
/111/

Sherman's March (1985)
Ross McElwee sets out to make a documentary about the lingering effects of General Sherman's march of destruction through the South during the Civil War, but is continually sidetracked by women who come and go in his life, his recurring dreams of nuclear holocaust, and Burt Reynolds.
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Kanopy
75
31
7.7
/427/
69
/14/
69
/9/
4.0
/838/
80
/5/
80
/7/

Time Indefinite (1993)
After documentarian Ross McElwee gets married, a series of misfortunes follow: his grandmother dies, his wife miscarries, and then his father dies less than a week later. Shaken by the sudden string of deaths, McElwee becomes depressed. After spending time with his friend and former high school poetry teacher, Charlene, he goes to meet his brother, a doctor. In a series of interviews, McElwee contemplates his morbid preoccupation with death and tries to figure out how to shake it off.
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Kanopy
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6.6
/89/
46
/3/
60
/4/

Backyard (1984)
Documentary film maker Ross McElwee returns to his family home in Charlotte NC. In filming his family, he captures a microcosm of Southern society.


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