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Echoes of the Rio | Official Trailer
One El Paso filmmaker calls on her Indigenous and Mexican ancestors to explore the cyclical starvation of the Rio Grande river and the human and inhumane factors contributing to the disappearance of its culture and bounty.
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A historian revisits the oral history of a 1920s school teacher in the Mississippi Delta.
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In 1971, one of the worst industrial tragedies in U.S. history shook rural Georgia.
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Jared Dawson embodies his drag persona, Lavonia Elberton, in Atlanta, Georgia.
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An ode to one man’s fight against strip mining the Appalachian mountains he loved dearly.
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A Southern restaurant adjusts to newfound fame after appearing on Korean television.
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Two Korean-American adoptees meet their birth mothers for the first time.
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An Alabama inmate fights to keep a jailhouse romance alive while advocating for parole.
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Youth suicide at a Louisiana juvenile detention center exposes a legacy of abuse.
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An ode to the poetry and power of the American South’s diverse landscape and its stewards.
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Louis Armstrong was an icon, but for Sharon, he was the father she could never reveal.
