The 1960 film romantic drama Wild River) tells the story of a government official from the Tennessee Valley Authority who is attempting to take the farm of an old widowed woman who refuses such acquisition of her family's land. The TVA man ends up developing a relationship with the woman's granddaughter. It also addresses Black agricultural labor in the south.
Primarily, the movie was intent to provide a criticism of the early methods of the Tennessee Valley Authority for dam building, which ended up flooding thousands of acres of prime farmland and separating families. In the most extreme case, people killed themselves out of spit of TVA's actions, feeling they were wronged.