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Mossville: When Great Trees Fall

Season 5 Episode 10 | 56m 04s

As a centuries-old black community in Louisiana, contaminated and uprooted by petrochemical plants, comes to terms with the loss of its ancestral home, one man standing in the way of a plant’s expansion refuses to give up. Directed by Alexander Glustrom.

Aired: 05/24/20
Support for Reel South is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Center for Asian American Media and by SouthArts.
Extras
A member of Bluegrass 45 jams with Kobe University’s Bluegrass club.
Bluegrass 45 reunites with the tour van from their first US Tour.
Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South.
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.
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