Aging Journal
List of films set in the Southern United States
2026-11-15 20:12:30 · The Daily Ledger
The following is a partial chronological list of movies set in the Southern United States:
1890s
Down in Dixie, 1898
Loading a Mississippi Steamboat, 1898
Way Down South, 1898
1900s
Arrival of Rex, 1902
Mardi Gras Parade, 1902
In Old Kentucky, 1909
1910s
The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg, 1911
A Gentleman from Mississippi, 1914
The Birth of a Nation, 1915
The Coward, 1915
Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1918
Almost a Husband, 1919
John Petticoats, 1919
1920s
The Copperhead, 1920
Huckleberry Finn, 1920
Tol'able David, 1921
Our Hospitality, 1923
The White Rose, 1923
America, 1924
The General, 1926
Court Martial, 1928
Hallelujah, 1929
Show Boat, 1929
1930s
Abraham Lincoln, 1930
Tol'able David, 1930
Huckleberry Finn, 1931
Secret Service, 1931
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, 1932
The Cabin in the Cotton, 1932
The Wet Parade, 1932
The Story of Temple Drake, 1933
Bed of Roses, 1933
Belle of the Nineties, 1934
It Happened One Night, 1934
Judge Priest, 1934
Operator 13, 1934
The World Moves On, 1934
The Little Colonel, 1935
The Littlest Rebel, 1935
Naughty Marietta, 1935
So Red the Rose, 1935
Steamboat Round the Bend, 1935
General Spanky, 1936
The Green Pastures, 1936
Hearts in Bondage, 1936
The Prisoner of Shark Island, 1936
Show Boat, 1936
They Won't Forget, 1937
The Buccaneer, 1938
The Cowboy and the Lady, 1938
Jezebel, 1938
Kentucky, 1938
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1939
The Cat and the Canary, 1939
Gone with the Wind, 1939
Man of Conquest, 1939
Zenobia, 1939
1940s
The Howards of Virginia, 1940
Virginia City, 1940
Belle Starr, 1941
The Little Foxes, 1941
Sergeant York, 1941
Swamp Water, 1941
Tobacco Road, 1941
The Loves of Edgar Allan Poe, 1942
Reap the Wild Wind, 1942
Tennessee Johnson, 1942
Son of Dracula, 1943
The Adventures of Mark Twain, 1944
Christmas Holiday, 1944
Go Down, Death!, 1944
The Mummy's Curse, 1944
Wilson, 1944
The Bride Wore Boots, 1945
Leave Her to Heaven, 1945
The Jolson Story, 1946
Song of the South, 1946
The Yearling, 1946
Dead Reckoning, 1947
Another Part of the Forest, 1948
Key Largo, 1948
Louisiana Story, 1948
Moonrise, 1948
A Southern Yankee, 1948
All the King's Men, 1949
The Fighting Kentuckian, 1949
Intruder in the Dust, 1949
Pinky, 1949
South of St. Louis, 1949
1950s
The Glass Menagerie, 1950
Panic in the Streets, 1950
Adventures of Captain Fabian, 1951
Drums in the Deep South, 1951
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain, 1951
Show Boat, 1951
A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951
Lure of the Wilderness, 1952
The Member of the Wedding, 1952
Ruby Gentry, 1952
Stars and Stripes Forever, 1952
The Story of Will Rogers, 1952
Bright Road, 1953
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, 1953
The Mississippi Gambler, 1953
The President's Lady, 1953
Seminole, 1953
The Sun Shines Bright, 1953
Carmen Jones, 1954
The Night of the Hunter, 1955
The Phenix City Story, 1955
Prince of Players, 1955
Queen Bee, 1955
Baby Doll, 1956
Giant, 1956
The Great Locomotive Chase, 1956
The Kettles in the Ozarks, 1956
The Searchers, 1956
April Love, 1957
Band of Angels, 1957
Drango, 1957
A Face in the Crowd, 1957
Old Yeller, 1957
Tammy and the Bachelor, 1957
The Three Faces of Eve, 1957
The Buccaneer, 1958
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958
The Defiant Ones, 1958
God's Little Acre, 1958
King Creole, 1958
The Long, Hot Summer, 1958
No Time for Sergeants, 1958
Thunder Road, 1958
Wind Across the Everglades, 1958
The Alligator People, 1959
Attack of the Giant Leeches, 1959
A Hole in the Head, 1959
The Horse Soldiers, 1959
John Paul Jones, 1959
Porgy and Bess, 1959
The Sound and the Fury, 1959
Suddenly, Last Summer, 1959
1960s
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1960
