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Small Town Universe
Season 10
Episode 1004
Green Bank, West Virginia, is home to the world’s most sensitive radio telescope—and the only U.S. town where Wi-Fi and cell phones are banned. Here, scientists search for signs of extraterrestrial life while residents navigate pivotal moments in their own lives. This film explores the community’s deep connection to the universe and each other.
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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.
14:26
Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
17:18
An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
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.
21:55
A Florida woman battles media scrutiny and public outrage to save her pet alligator.
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55:46
Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.