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REEL SOUTH is a PBS documentary series that showcases authentic stories which unearth the spirit of the South today. The series explores layers of Southern life across themes of social justice, cultural experience, environmental challenges, and more. REEL SOUTH aims to leverage our region’s rich storytelling tradition as a catalyst for positive change — in the American South and beyond.

Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South.
A member of Bluegrass 45 jams with Kobe University’s Bluegrass club.
Bluegrass 45 reunites with the tour van from their first US Tour.
Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.
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Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South.
In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth.
Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones leads the charge to preserve history through scuba diving.
After escaping Japan, an elderly man finds peace as a bamboo farmer in North Carolina.
A young woman is tapped to become the next chief of her tribe in southern Louisiana.
Five Black women take on the Klan in a landmark 1982 civil case for justice.
A Muslim-American family fights for justice after their loved ones are murdered in NC.
Survivors of Birmingham’s bombings work to transform the city’s painful history.
A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.
A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.
With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.
Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas.
The only doctor in Clay County Georgia must confront the possibility of losing her clinic.
Families torn apart by Georgetown’s sale of enslaved people reunite six generations later.
Members of a rural Virginia town are exposed to contamination from a nearby Army plant.
A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.
63 years after the Bay of Pigs invasion, the surviving dissidents tell the fuller story.
In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
An Asian-American veteran of the Vietnam War searches for the soldier who saved his life.
In 1951, a Christmas window astonished a little girl in Louisville, KY. Who is she?
Frankie, a transgender woman and deft politician, runs for San Antonio City Council.
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.
An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
Hear the gospel of 83-year-old Mother Perry and her legendary music group The Branchettes.
Karen Hinton Robinson quilts the Black history lessons absent from the Texan curricula.
An Arkansas woman and her town adopt an injured vulture as their own.
Three Haitian bathroom attendants hold court in Miami nightclubs, even during a pandemic.
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.
Four spirited teenage sisters languish at home during the pandemic of 2020.
Just outside Nashville, a mortician creates the state’s first, natural burial ground.
A coming-of-age story about two best friends living on the US-Mexico border.
Extras
Ellie White visits an elementary school to lead students in an astronomy project.
When the NSF proposes a funding cut to an Observatory, residents passionately defend the project.
In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth.
Sue is wracked with mystery symptoms. She soon finds the cause: electrohypersensitivity.
Sue and her husband are reunited as he moves to live with her in Green Bank permanently.
Sue reflects on how her quality of life has improved in Green Bank.
Sue and her husband reunite and attend a dinner with an electrohypersensitivity group.
Dr. Albert “Doc” Jones leads the charge to preserve history through scuba diving.
The founder of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers recalls a childhood memory.
After encountering discrimination in the Scuba diving world, Dr. Jones forms his own club.