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Discount Funeral

Season 11 Episode 1104

Through raw, unfiltered glimpses of dozens of lives in Birmingham, Alabama, Discount Funeral stitches together faces, places, and fleeting moments into a surreal portrait of America. Fragmented yet intimate, the film reveals the beauty, grit, and quiet strangeness embedded in everyday existence.

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Florida Woman
21:55
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
Little Satchmo
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55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.
Flat Town
26:05
A rural Louisiana high school football game unites a historically segregated town.
Mossville: When Great Trees Fall
56:04
One man standing in the way of a petrochemical plant expansion refuses to give up.
Two Trains Runnin'
55:51
Young white men navigate 1960s Mississippi to find two long-lost blues singers.
Driven Blind
25:13
A world champion drag racer faces a new reality after a fiery accident blinds him.
Alabama Bound
56:46
Three families in Alabama fight for equality while gay marriage cases crowd the courts.
SOUL CITY
23:27
Soul City explores the rise, fall, and legacy of Soul City, North Carolina.
THE STATE OF EUGENICS
56:46
This is the story about the impact of forced sterilization of thousands of Americans.
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