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Stories Set in Arkansas
The Ozarks hide backwoods crime sagas while Little Rock anchors political dramas. Arkansas stories blend mountain folklore with small-city secrets along the Mississippi.
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Browse 50 books and 38 movies set in Arkansas.
The Road to El Dorado
After a failed swindle two con-men end up with a map to El Dorado the fabled "city of gold" and an unintended trip to the New World. Much to their surprise the map does lead the pair to the mythical city where the…
True Grit
Following the murder of her father by a hired hand a 14-year-old farm girl sets out to capture the killer. To aid her she hires the toughest U.S. Marshal she can find—a man with 'true grit'—Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn.
Walk the Line
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis where he recorded alongside Elvis Presley Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl…
Minari
A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what…
Sling Blade
Karl Childers a mentally disabled man has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized he is deemed fit to be released…
The Stand
This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the…
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Sent by their mother to live with their devout, self-sufficient grandmother in a small Southern town, Maya and her brother, Bailey, endure the ache of abandonment and the prejudice of the local "powhitetrash." At eight…
Brubaker
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
A horrific triple child murder leads to an indictment and trial of three nonconformist boys based on questionable evidence.
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
A further investigation into the arrest of three teenagers convicted of killing three young boys in Arkansas who spent nearly 20 years in prison before being released after new DNA evidence indicated they may be…
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