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REEL SOUTH
Season 6 First Look | Season Premiere April 5!
Season 6 of Reel South tackles this moment in American life with nuance and camaraderie. This collection of films finds common ground through ritual and participation with stories that face up to the past and bend to the future by finding pathways away from absolution and toward equity.
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27:32
Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.
56:15
An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
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26:16
Three Haitian bathroom attendants hold court in Miami nightclubs, even during a pandemic.
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21:55
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
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56:06
Four spirited teenage sisters languish at home during the pandemic of 2020.
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56:35
Just outside Nashville, a mortician creates the state’s first, natural burial ground.
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55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.
56:04
One man standing in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion refuses to give up.
55:51
Young white men navigate 1960s Mississippi to find two long-lost blues singers.
26:46
A battle emerges in New Orleans as the city debates Confederate monuments.
56:46
Three families in Alabama fight for equality while gay marriage cases crowd the courts.
56:46
This is the story about the impact of forced sterilization of thousands of Americans.