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River valleys run from smoky eastern mountains to western bluffs in this southern state built on song and trade. Memphis blues labels and Nashville country radio turned local sounds into industries, giving road and stage plots built-in drive. Walk the Line and The Blind Side follow that music-and-football current through Memphis lives. Open Tennessee on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.
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Browse 160 books, 160 movies, 4 TV shows and 5 games set in Tennessee.
The Blind Side
The story of Michael Oher a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
The Evil Dead
In 1979 a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
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…
Evil Dead
Five young friends find the mysterious and fiercely powerful Book of the Dead and unable to resist its temptation release a violent demon on a bloodthirsty quest to possess them all.
The Firm
At the top of his class at Harvard Law, he had his choice of the best in America. He made a deadly mistake. When Mitch McDeere signed on with Bendini, Lambert & Locke of Memphis, he thought he and his beautiful wife,…
Hannah Montana: The Movie
When Miley Stewart (aka pop-star Hannah Montana) gets too caught up in the superstar celebrity lifestyle her dad decides it's time for a total change of scenery. But sweet niblets! Miley must trade in all the glitz and…
The Firm
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him he is totally…
The Rainmaker
When Rudy Baylor a young attorney with no clients goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate…
Before We Were Yours
Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family’s Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy…
American Gods
Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a…
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