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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.

Gas stations across the South reveal the people and stories sustaining rural America.
A novice banjoist performs "Boil That Cabbage Down" at a celebratory jam session.
Engines roar across the blazing red dunes between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez.
Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.
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  • REEL SOUTH Season 11
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High-octane off-road culture on the Texas-Mexico border.
Reclaiming the Black roots of the banjo.
A Ukrainian retiree’s art finds late-life acclaim.
An underwater detective searches for truth and faith in Virginia.
A male doula supports Black mothers in Houston.
An experimental view of Miami’s restless pursuit of the American dream.
A haunting scrapbook portrait of small-town America.
A filmmaker probes dams, displacement, and family legacy.
Country music star Ketch Secor sparks dialogue on guns in a divided America.
A wrongful conviction in Texas is reopened after 40 years.
An 88-year-old artist reflects on life and creation in rural Louisiana.
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.
Extras
Hidden in George's art lies memories from his childhood in Ukraine.
A former KKK hall prompts Fort Worth to consider how to handle its past.
Louisiana artist Jan Beauboeuf muses on art and creation.
Sgt. Mike Berry discusses how he copes with the emotions brought up by recovering corpses.
Teddy advises a client and her partner on what to expect during labor and childbirth.
Scenes of dancers rehearsing and joyfully performing in Birmingham, Alabama.
Immigrants and their families celebrate earning US citizenship.
Hunters reflect on coon hunting, hounds, and family traditions passed down for generations.
A filmmaker probes dams, displacement, and family legacy.
Dr. Ken Roberts warns residents about a hydropower project.