American Hollow

American Hollow (1999) [Full Movie]

American Hollow

https://youtu.be/CDAFy3ASNOo

Mar 7, 2015
This film tells the tale of a close-knit Appalachian family that has changed little in the last 100 years.

American Hollow (1999)
Documentary [1 h 30 min]
Bascum Bowling, Clint Bowling, Edgar Bowling, Iree Bowling
Director: Rory Kennedy
Writer: Mark Bailey

Uploaded by Jeremy Bowling

For any future updates and more information about the family:

American Hollow Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1GciD75

Music
8 songs

Gimme a Holler
Bill Frisell
Nashville

Dogwood Acres
Bill Frisell
Nashville

I'm On My Way To The Old Home
Bill Monroe
High Lonesome: The Story of...

I Ain't Broke But I'm Badly Bent
David Grisman
The David Grisman Rounder...

Poison Love (Sugar Hill Version)
Gene Wooten
The Great Dobro Sessions

The Wife and Kid
Bill Frisell
Gone, Just Like a Train

Mr. Memory
Bill Frisell
Nashville

Keep Your Eyes Open
Bill Frisell
Nashville

Appalachia After Hurricane Helene (11:16)
https://rumble.com/v5gzft6-appalachia-after-hurricane-helene-what-the-media-wont-tell-you.html

Appalachia A Photographic Novel
https://store.forrestmaready.com/products/appalachia-a-photographic-novel

Appalachia Rumble Playlist
https://rumble.com/playlists/YVUNgUuoFT4

Appalachia YouTube Playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVWY2D0l9PqAKxR-WT5sk1WoOiSt9f1B

@ashtonholland1566 (edited)
This is my Grandmothers documentary and I'm so excited finally found the video. Iree was my great grandmother and never got top meet her but I was born in 2004 and she passed away 2010 but I still never got to see her. One of the 13 children, Thelma is my grandmother and she's doing well, another Ruthie Gibson is doing well too.

@whiskey_pink_42
Wanda boiling the water saying ‘you have to make do with what you got’, then hand wringing clothes she washed with rain water. It’s hard but she made sure her babies were clean and bathed daily. That’s a true mother’s love.

@a.walters123
Iree is smart and intelligent, and actually has a comedic side to her. I am so glad her story was told. What an amazing woman ❤️

@ZapRowsdower47
Im Native American and grew up on the rez in South Dakota and we knew folks like this everyday and got along because we similar in our daily lives, much respect to them hollow folks.

@elizabethcampbell4897
Until you’ve actually made a quilt, you can have no appreciation for what they are worth; they are priceless.

@j.sony.
What he said "I have 7 brothers, and i ain't got one to spare" that was so sweet. That is how caring a family should be...

@aaronsee6828
My mother purchased quilt patterns off Iree. I have one her her quilts.

@cajun-brat6768 (edited)
I will NOT complain about doing laundry EVER again.
Just saying

@belami_irl8543
Well they didn’t have a lot but they had love...that’s priceless.

@itsjustmyopinionbut1671 (edited)
As an Appalachian, we’ve been misunderstood, misrepresented, and mocked by the rest of the US for centuries. Nowadays, our culture is slowly dying. I’m proud to be from where I’m from, and I hope my kids will be as proud of their heritage and culture. It’s one of the most unique, rarest in the world, right up to the accent. God bless the mountain people.

@alanmorris7669
Even though this was an HBO documentary and not a television series, the entire family should've been paid a large sum of money because it took over a year to film this movie, "American Hollow." They should've been paid as much money as those Swamp People and those Duck Dynasty brothers.

@yevettebamber4273
I saw a small update that made me cry. Most of the family had passed or moved on. the closness they had while Iree was alive was gone. Same thing happened in my family. It's was the older generation that kept us all together. Once my Grandma passed everybody slowly went their seperate ways.

@donneesf
I love what Ms. Iree said at the end about them always having food and a place to stay. What a beautiful way for a matriarch to feel. She was a great woman.

@minnesotajames1 (edited)
Update on Iree, her extended family, and her 13 children as of 2023.

Oma (14:16) died in 1999 at age 93
Marion (42:46) died in 2006 at age 74
Bascum (2:55) died in 2003 at age 75
Iree (2:33) died in 2010 at age 81
Pierce (21:46) died in 2005 at age 55
Barbara (not mentioned) died in 2018 at age 70
Patrick (19:24) died in 2021 at age 59
Denny (4:10) died in 2021 at age 65
Lonzo (4:26) died in 2022 as age 68

Out of her 13 children, 5 have passed. Average age was 61.8. It makes Neil's comment at 20:54 very sad. He had seven brothers. Now he has three.

Bless this family. RIP to all of those who have passed.

@jaynej2884
My fav line is “I wanna talk to ya, man to mommy”

@almaburns6562 (edited)
"I got seven brothers but still yet, I wanna keep 'em all, I ain't got none to spare."

@genevieve.w
Iree was so beautiful in every way possible. I truly admire her. I don't understand how anyone could watch this and say they were "poor representation" of the area. You make me proud to be from KY. I think Iree worked harder in her old age than most of the newer generation ever will.

@JK-zq9vw
“There’s nothing here for him”.... when I left WV to join the Air Force, with tears in his eyes my dad told me two things. I love you and don’t come back here, there ain’t nothing for you... from age 17(when I first moved back after 15 years of being kept away) to 22 he told me he loved me 3 times, hugged me twice and told me to find away out of there more times than I can count. These folks may seem backwards to you on the other side of the screen, but you treat them fair and earn their trust and these folks will lay down their lives for you. They do work hard but they start hard work so young their bodies are used up. The clothes may look dirty but it’s all the crap in their well water that’s stains them with rust and sulfur. These same sort of folks and their lands have been used up by the coal and timber industries and now all the fracking. They are afraid they can’t live without welfare but they work hard and still need help. They still stay married and raise their children. And even though they cuss at each other and even fight, they still stay a close family. Oh, and a small fire with all your close friends and family on a peaceful summer night is still better than any night out on the town in a big city any day!!

@Hollowsmith
This is a great documentary that shows all the things money can escape you from, and all the things money cannot buy you.

@uptbo2025
Im an black american who's from the city and I have to say I absolutely enjoyed this

@johnnydtractive
Well holy sh*t. I just watched that brother smile wryly about having to put his family's house on the line to get his brother out of jail. "You can always find more dirt. But I got 7 brothers & I wanna keep every one of them". THAT'S family.

@TWms-bb8rc
this is much better than the plastic kartrashions.

@astridvvv9662 (edited)
I GASPED at those quilts hanging on her line. They're some of the most beautiful I've seen and I'd be so happy to have my bed covered by one. I was shocked when she said she hadn't been able to sell one in SEVEN years. Quilts with that level of generation to generation craftsmanship put into them, with the added benefit of Iree having an obvious eye for design/aesthetic, would make them extremely desired today. She could have easily asked for hundreds of dollars per quilt had the ability for her to list them online/ship orders out herself been available back then.

@raquelclass9647
I want to see an updated 2020 and see where the’re all at today.

@gotmoney7518
Old lady kept them alive take my hat off to her she a og

@MarkRiley12
Growing up in these hollers here in the coalfields of southern West Virginia, and growing up with family like this and around families like this, it makes me unbelievably happy to see all the loving comments from everyone. I was expecting more of the hillbilly, incest, Wrong Turn dumb stuff you hear a lot of childish people say. It warms my heart to see all of the love everyone has given. Much love and respect to every one of y'all. Thank y'all!

@cdubs5738
Iree are the type of women that are the glue that holds these rural families together;
I’m from rural VA, and ladies like Mrs. Iree were priceless to the culture

@robertakennedy1479
I grew up on a farm in Appalachia. We may have been material poor but we had so much freedom, freedom to play in the woods with our cousins when we weren't doing farm work. My siblings and I agree that though we were poor we were greatly blessed by God and when we look back to that farm those years we truly were blessed.

@JL-uz9ky (edited)
"It hurts mommy"...
OMG, I nearly cried when he said that...bless his heart, hurts when our babies hurt. No matter what age they are!!!❤😘