Jim Sheridan’s In America, which he wrote with his daughters Naomi and Kirsten, is very loosely based on the Irish director’s experiences coming to New York with his family as a young man.

A curious but apprehensive audience has crowded into the small vaudeville theater to see the first public exhibition of movies in America. Defying gloomy, pre-dictions that the projector would ...

Flip through the slideshow below for 20 essential movies set in the American South, from comedies like "Steel Magnolias" to more serious, hard-hitting films like "Mississippi Burning" and "To Kill ...