Ross Spears's Films

AGEE: A Sovereign Prince of the English

• Documentary
• Feature

Agee is the story of James Agee, one of the most talented writers of our time. A quintessentially American writer, James Agee was driven by passions f...

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The Electric Valley

• Documentary
• Feature

The Tennessee Valley Authority--the TVA--was a project like no other, and it continues to shape life in the South to this day. In 1933, the TVA was g...

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Long Shadows

• Documentary
• Feature

LONG SHADOWS explores the ways in which the echoes of the Civil War can still be felt in American society: from politics to economics, from civil righ...

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To Render a Life

• Documentary
• Feature

In 1936 writer James Agee and photographer Walker Evans traveled to Hale County, Alabama to document the lives of three families of desperately poor c...

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Tell About the South: Part One

• Documentary
• Feature

Part One of Tell About The South, a series of three feature length films documenting the history of modern Southern Literature, tells the story of Sou...

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Prophets and Poets

• Documentary
• Feature

Part Two of Tell About The South, a series of three feature length films documenting the history of modern Southern Literature, tells the story of Sou...

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Toddlin'

• Documentary
• Feature

Viewers will remember what it's like to be two years old again in this delightful portrait of Nick Spears at age two. Shot by his dad and edited by A...

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Train Boys

• Documentary
• Short

Nick's adventures continue in the sequel, Train Boys. Nick is now three years old and simply adores trains of all sizes and kinds - wooden trains, Tho...

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The Three Spears

• Action
• Short

The third film in the Father and Son trilogy is The Three Spears, and it's a bit different from the other two. In The Three Spears we watch Nick grow ...

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Let Freedom Ring

• Documentary
• Feature

Part Three of the series Tell About the South tells the story of Southern Literature from the Civil Rights Movement until the present. It features Wal...

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