Back to Show
REEL SOUTH
Bikini Atoll Day of Remembrance
A Marshallese Nuclear Justice Event in Springdale, Arkansas commemorates 76 years of exile for former residents of Bikini Atoll, which was used for nuclear testing by the US government.
Support Provided By

16:53
A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.

21:10
In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.

17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.

14:26
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.

30:26
A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.

24:04
Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.

27:09
An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.

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.

Unlock with PBS Passport
55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.