Moonshiners is an American docudrama television series on the Discovery Channel produced by Magilla Entertainment that dramatizes the life of people who produce (illegal) moonshine in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
[3] Portions of the show that feature Marvin "Popcorn" Sutton were taken from a documentary film by Neal Hutcheson.
Hutcheson's documentary was filmed and released in 2002, called This is the Last Dam Run of Likker I'll Ever Make.
[5] Sutton was arrested in 2007 by ATF agents in Cocke County, Tennessee (led by Jim Cavanaugh of Waco siege fame) for illegally distilling liquor and possession of a handgun by a felon, and was sentenced to eighteen months in jail in 2009.
[8] In February 2019, a new series titled Moonshiners: Whiskey Business was announced through Discovery Channel.