Moonshiners (TV series)

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.

[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.

He subsequently died by suicide, apparently to avoid serving the federal prison term.

[9] In February 2019, a new series titled Moonshiners: Whiskey Business was announced through Discovery Channel.