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The people, culture, landscape and history of the South both captivate and bewilder. In the cherished tradition of Southern storytelling, Reel South reveals the South's proud yet complicated heritage, as told by a diversity of voices and perspectives.

A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.
The Rio Grande is plagued by drought, taking away a source of cultural connection.
A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
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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A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.
Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.
A Black farmer in Virginia wrestles with tradition and the changing needs of the economy.
With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.
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.
Marshallese migrants in Arkansas explore the US nuclear legacy.
A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
Members of a rural Virginia town are exposed to contamination from a nearby Army plant.
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.
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.
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.
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
Three Haitian bathroom attendants hold court in Miami nightclubs, even during a pandemic.
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.
A dying shopping mall embodies Americana values and culture in a changing South.
Arkansas high school writers and performers seek healing and justice for their community.
The legacy of Black funeral homes in San Antonio, Texas hinges on one renowned embalmer.
Atlanta teens face the thrills, joy, and struggles of navigating the wilds of Colorado.
Robert Kennedy defies a Mississippi state-wide campus speaker-ban in 1966.
A rural Louisiana high school football game unites a historically segregated town.
The struggle and joys of Black golfers who integrated a municipal course in Asheville, NC.
One man standing in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion refuses to give up.
Extras
Juan Mancias fights for access to Boca Chica, an important cultural site for his tribe.
Joyce Dugan recalls her resolution to purchase land that was important to the EBCI.
Cecil Taylor shares his family history of tobacco farming.
For the Whites, supporting Black farmers is a family tradition.
Indigenous and Mexican ancestors explore the history and disappearance of the Rio Grande.
How the Eastern Band of Cherokee reclaimed their land.
With eyes toward space, Texas restricts access to an otherworldly beach.
Laurie, publisher and editor of the Canadian Record, covers a new nursing home.
Out of time and money, a newspaper editor fights to keep her paper alive in rural Texas.
In 1951, a Christmas window astonished a little girl in Louisville, KY. Who is she?